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The LCANZ is calling for responses to the Religion and domestic violence: Exploring men’s perpetration report. The report provides members of the church with an opportunity to receive and be guided by people’s experiences of domestic and family violence.

Mission leaders and practitioners met in Sydney last month to work out how to pool their expertise, experience and resources to reinvigorate mission culture in the LCANZ. Join this energetic community in two Zoom meetings.

The sale listing of the church’s North Adelaide properties – occupied by Australian Lutheran College (ALC) and the LCA Churchwide Office – has attracted local and international interest from a wide range of potential buyers.

framework by which the LCANZ could operate as one church with two different practices of ordination has been released for information, engagement, and discussion in church communities. The Way Forward Framework will be refined and finalised by mid-June.

Nominations for positions on the boards, councils, commissions and committees of the LCANZ for the next synodical term are now open. Governance body members who wish to continue in their role also need to submit a nomination, as reappointment is not guaranteed.

by Alison Schutz

Few people can say they have served in a role for 70 years but Hedley Scholz can! Hedley, 89, was recognised earlier this month for seven decades of volunteering as a lay reader for his Lutheran community at Eudunda in country South Australia.