These grannies keep showing the way
Three years ago, women from the Bridgewater Grace congregation in South Australia heard about a need at Blair Athol North primary school and started to tutor disadvantaged children over Zoom each week.
Read moreCommunity Sponsorship of Refugees (CRISP)
If you are concerned about refugees and would like to be more directly involved, you might be interested in this new program that the Australian Government is currently trialling.
Read moreIt’s not just a box of fresh vegetables
Every so often, David offers to purchase a box of fresh vegetables as a gift for one of our Tamil asylum seeker families. He usually greets the family but leaves it at the front door. This particular time it wasn’t just about delivering a box of fresh vegetables.
Read moreDepth of joy
I have interacted with different cultures, but it was not until I was involved in Cross-Cultural Ministry in the Lutheran Church that I was able to really appreciate the simplicity and complexity of different cultures.
Read moreNew government program focusing on refugees
Recently, the Australian Government has agreed to a new program, CRISP, which allows small groups of Australians to directly sponsor refugee families from camps overseas.
Read moreUsing what we have to bless strangers
The folk at Paringa Holy Cross (in the South Australia Riverland) have a pretty good facility. When Pastor Stephen Trautwein noticed the hundreds of itinerant Pacific Islander workers coming into the area, he reached out to offer them a place to meet and worship.
Read moreA ministry partnership is birthed
On the last weekend of July, we witnessed something special in the South Australian country town Freeling as the Light Parish hosted some new friends from Shepparton. The weekend will be long remembered by all who were there and was filled with colour and singing.
Read moreGlynde congregation open almost every day of the week
The team at Glynde Lutheran Church in the inner northeast of Adelaide have found the recipe to get people together. They are now open for business almost every day of the week, demonstrating what a truly multicultural group can look like.
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