Each year I write some ‘Reflections on the Church’ for District Conventions. This Heartland eNews shares with you the most recent version, in the hope you might find it helpful.
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Reflections on the church
Film Digitisation Appeal
Please partner with us This link takes you to our LCA online donation site, where you can pay securely via credit card. Lutheran Archives Film Digitisation Appeal Seeds that sprout… Read more
The church that followed its people
What do you do when you have a large family and no local Lutheran church? Build a church on your own farm, of course! And when those children move off… Read more
Please pray for our church plants and sending churches
Please pray for our church plants and sending churches, missional opportunities and the many people behind these missional initiatives.
Resource company back in church hands
Mission, ministry and serving the LCA are the motivations behind LifeWay Lutheran Church’s purchase of church resource company ACR. The church, which has congregations at Epping in northern Sydney and… Read more
A revolution! Learning to be church in a pandemic
Amid all the suffering from COVID-19, God has given us precious and rare gifts – among them less busyness and the chance to reflect on what it means to be his church in the world. Some LCA/NZ mission leaders believe these gifts present our church with an opportunity too good to miss.
Mission focus challenges mindsets
Becoming a sending church St Luke’s Albury, which is located in southern New South Wales, on the northern side of the Murray River border with Victoria, is a uniquely gifted… Read more
New support structure for church workers
Church workers within the LCA have a new support structure in place. The LCA Board for Lay Ministry has been decommissioned as part of the transition to the new Church Worker… Read more
Church Worker Service Policies & Guidelines Released
Last year the, then, General Church Council (now Board) endorsed the following policies Church Worker Service Pastor Call Process Policy Employee Recruitment and Selection Policy Volunteer Identification and Selection Policy… Read more
