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On 21 June, Lutheran Media marked 80 years of ministry with a thank you lunch attended by nearly 100 people at Kies Family Wines in South Australia’s Barossa Valley.

More than 1,300 LCANZ members and friends have stepped out on the footpaths, roads and tracks around Australia in this year’s ALWS Walk My Way events held to support children impacted by war and poverty. To date, approximately $190,000 has been raised to support more than 7,500 children.

Our Lutheran family and friends in Australia have helped to send more than 14,000 refugee children to school through Australian Lutheran World Service’s Walk My Way in 2021.

Lutheran Disability Services (LDS) Support Worker Julie Green hadn’t heard of Walk My Way before the lead-up to last month’s event in SA’s Barossa Valley. But now she says the LDS team of clients and staff ‘can’t wait to do it again’. ‘They have expressed how proud they are to support Walk My Way’,

With ALWS Walk My Way community events cancelled due to COVID-19, four Year 11 students from Concordia College in suburban Adelaide thought creatively about raising funds to support the education of children in refugee camps. They raised enough to help 143 children to go to school.