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Going GREYt!

In Going GREYT! we feature stories of some of our ‘more experienced’ people within the LCA, who are making a positive contribution in their retirement. We pray their examples of service will be an inspiration and encouragement to us all as we seek to be Christ’s hands and feet wherever we are, with whatever gifts and opportunities we’ve been given. These stories first appear in ‘The Lutheran’.

13
Nov2018

God has a plan for all seasons

by Helen Beringen

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For Helen Middelmann, her recent retirement from hospital chaplaincy means the end of another season. Though tinged with sadness, the change is part of a life richly blessed for the Canberra retiree with a range of seasons, each one bringing a budding blossom of promise.

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22
Aug2018

God’s storyteller

by Helen Beringen

Just as a farmer sows seeds and leaves it to God to grow them into bountiful crops, every day God gives us a story to share with those close to us. It’s his story. This is a message close to the heart of one Adelaide octogenarian for whom witnessing has been a passion for the… Read more

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11
Jul2018

Sharing bread with a caring heart

by Helen Beringen

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Every week a small group of retirees from Bethlehem Morley (WA) congregation makes 120 sandwiches and 200 pancakes for students of a local high school.

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01
Jun2018

Jesus wants you for a sunbeam

by Helen Beringen

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It may take years to see where God is calling you, where God wants you to shine his light. In the case of Sunshine Coast retiree Arthur Hall, it was a 62-year long journey.

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01
May2018

Kunpry Peipei

by Helen Beringen and Rob Borgas

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Almost 500 kilometres from Alice Springs, in the southwestern corner of the Northern Territory, lies a little town in the shadow of Uluru.

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01
Apr2018

Patchworks of love

by Helen Beringen

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Covered in a patchwork of pictures, from praying hands and a church and cross, to cakes, jams, a tennis racquet and a rainbow, the runner symbolises more than half a century of quiet love and service that Doreen has given to her local Gatton community.

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01
Mar2018

God works in the ordinary

by Helen Beringen

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Being a blessing to others often doesn’t require doing anything spectacular, sensational or extraordinary. In fact, God most often uses the ordinary things of life to shower his goodness on people.

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01
Feb2018

A helping heart who can’t say ‘no’

by Helen Beringen

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The charming Betty Mattiske just can’t say ‘no’ to requests for help. Blame her mother’s war-era work ethic, and being raised on a dairy farm at Meningie, South Australia.

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01
Nov2017

The organiser

by Helen Beringen

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Arthur Schuster is an organiser. He has always been an organiser. It is his God-given gift. And he has used it with gusto to serve God for the best part of his 87 years!

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01
Aug2017

Sharing a treasured heritage

by Helen Beringen

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John Schultz maintains a close affinity with the story-filled pieces in his museum collection, which celebrates and preserves the culture and heritage of Papua New Guinea and other mission fields.

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