Feb2020
Register now for mission conference
The LCA/NZ’s New & Renewing Churches department will host a one-day mission conference in July in Adelaide and registrations are now open.
Nov2019
Reaching the sick and sad
by Phil Husband
Whanganui Lutheran congregation on New Zealand’s North Island had faced closure as numbers fell. But God had other plans for them.
Oct2019
Friends in knead, friends indeed
by Steve Liersch
Volunteers from Rockingham–Mandurah Lutheran Church in WA have been reaching out to their local community, armed with nothing more than friendly smiles and some loaves of bread.
Sep2019
New mission movement attracts 180 at conferences
During the last week of August and the first weekends of September, more than 180 pastors, church leaders, active and potential church planters, and others gathered for the New Horizons and SENT conferences.
Sep2019
International mission consortium meeting coming to Australia
The 2020 meeting of an international mission consortium will be held in Adelaide. Rev Dr Steen Olsen, former mission director of the SA–NT District, who attended the 2019 event in Wellington, South Africa, said that this represents an exciting opportunity for the LCA/NZ.
Jul2019
‘Come as a stranger, leave as a friend’
by Helen Beringen
For nine years from February to December 86-year-old Owen Uebergang has been serving up soup and making friends with those he meets at a special Monday evening gathering in suburban Adelaide.
