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by Erin Kerber

Several Lutheran Education Australia schools joined LCA International Mission for their first visit to their Indonesian partner schools since the international borders reopened.

 More than 50 people re-considered their local neighbourhoods as mission fields during last weekend’s 2023 LCANZ Cross-Cultural Ministry conference in Melbourne. 

At the March meeting of the College of Bishops and the General Church Board which addressed the Ordination Way Forward Resolution from General Synod 2021–23, it was decided that the College of Bishops should provide guidance regarding the way the resolution is understood in the church.

The project team to lead the Ordination Resolution Way Forward project has been appointed. The three-person team of Tim Niewand, Stella Thredgold and Tony Vong, met for the first time on 18 April at the LCANZ head office in North Adelaide.

Since the February Convention of General Synod, the General Church Board (GCB) and College of Bishops (CoB) have met together twice to commence work on Synod’s resolution to explore the possibility of ‘one church with two ordination practices’.

Australian Lutheran College (ALC) has engaged three experienced practitioners to teach in its higher education program.