Aboriginal/Indigenous

Members of Victor Harbor Lutheran Church, South Australia and representatives of nearby Encounter Lutheran College and the area’s Aboriginal community gathered on Sunday to mark a special anniversary – 180 years since Encounter Bay’s first mission school opened.

Pastor Stephen Radke has been installed as part of the Finke River Mission in Central Australia.

The Amunturrngu Mount Liebig Church building was completed around the year 2000. At that time, it was just a large shed, serving the community’s basic needs for a place of worship and gathering.

Join Friends of Lutheran Archives on 15 August for the online launch of Enlightened Aboriginal Futures and Sandhill Girl.

To assist LCA members as they pray and prepare to vote in the Australian referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament in October, the College of Bishops has overseen the production of a guide on this matter for the communities of the church.

by Rob Borgas

The offering from this year’s LCANZ Convention of General Synod in-person meetings is contributing more than $30,000 towards a Finke River Mission (FRM) project producing, revising or reprinting Lutheran song and hymnbooks in Central Australian Aboriginal languages.