Jan2016
Warm, like the sun
by Michelle Filipovic
I was visiting Yasmin*, an Iranian asylum seeker from a Muslim background, when she showed me around the family’s new rental home. ‘I felt like a light shining on me, Joy, like calm… warmth like the sun, PEACE’. After the tour we read from the English Farsi Easy Good News Bible the story of Jesus… Read more
Jan2016
‘We have so much to learn’
by LCA Communications
Members of the Lutheran Church in New Zealand have been re-energised in their approach to family ministry, thanks to a recent seminar with Grow Ministries’ team members in Wellington. It was the first time Grow had visited New Zealand. ‘We can continue to re-think and reflect on how we are cultivating caring relationships across all… Read more
Jan2016
Buy less – and bless!
by LCA Communications
When one of his members wanted to take a stand against the BUY! BUY! BUY! ethos of Christmas, Pastor Ben Hentschke from Ipswich Lutheran Parish in south-east Queensland suggested they raise money for clean water in Indonesia. ‘Everyone was on the same page in wanting to help others and buy less.’ He never imagined they’d… Read more
Jan2016
What a sight, what a joy!
by LCA Communications
Imagine seeing more than 1000 young people coming together to study for ministry. What a sight that would be. What a joy! This is a ministry in which you play a part. Every year the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia (BCCM) runs its Bahasa Malay ministry camp for indigenous young people (some of whom are… Read more
Jan2016
Marinating in the Gospel
by LCA Communications
LCA church-planting mentor Dean Eaton invites us to soak up the RENEW Mission Life series. ‘The only concept of mission into which God fits is the one of which he is the beginning, the centre and the end’ Christopher Wright, The Mission of God The purpose of the Board for Local Mission’s new five-week RENEW… Read more
Jan2016
A home at last
by Janette Lange
Finally it was here. The long awaited day. No more moving from place to place. They had their own church building! When St John’s, Hillcrest, SA, opened its church building in 1960 it was true cause for joy and celebration, for it ended almost three decades of being without a place the congregation could call… Read more
