Lutheran Archives

If you have been involved with Lutheran youth groups or organisations in Australia or New Zealand in the past 70-plus years, then FoLA wants to hear from you. As part of a new oral history project, FoLA is seeking audio recordings of people’s reflections about youth days.

If you have been involved with Lutheran youth groups or organisations in Australia or New Zealand any time over the past 70-plus years, then the Friends of Lutheran Archives wants to hear from you.

by Janette Lange

Hundreds of photos capture life at Lutheran missions in South Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland are securely maintained at Lutheran Archives in Adelaide. But, for many Aboriginal people, distance means they can’t browse the photos and viewing them online may not be an option.

by Rev Peter Ziersch

🕷 ‘All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.’
On Flashback Friday, we look back to 2006 when Rev Peter Ziersch shared an interesting encounter one Sunday morning with a huntsman spider.

by Unknown

A woman had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. As she was getting her things ‘in order’, she contacted her pastor and asked him to come to her house to discuss her final wishes…