PNG

Current and previous PNG missionaries, families, MKs (‘mission kids’) and friends – anyone with an interest in PNG! – are welcome to attend the Qld Bung Yumi 2025 on Sunday 12 April 2025.

by Michael Stolz

When ALWS Executive Director Michael Stolz attended the opening of a women’s conference in Papua New Guinea recently, he wasn’t expecting the announcement made by the chief of the host tribe, who said they would be honoured if Michael accepted their prize pig!

You are invited to join an online gathering with young people from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea to hear stories of mission work by former missionaries and talk with them.

Warrambui Retreat and Conference Centre near Canberra has run a volunteer internship program for young people from around Australia for more than 30 years. But in 2023, the Lutheran camping ministry program became cross-cultural, welcoming its first participants from Papua New Guinea.

LCA International Mission’s Missionaries Timeline is an online resource designed to acknowledge and thank the Australian Lutherans who have served in mission overseas, particularly in Papua New Guinea, and shares their inspiring stories and photos.

by Matt Anker

Five decades after the first Lutherans began a prayer group and built a church in Papua New Guinea’s West Sepik region, a new Lutheran evangelist has been commissioned to continue carrying the good news to people in the remote jungles of the nation’s northernmost province.