From the inner cities of Australia and New Zealand, to country towns and the outback, LCA pastors, lay workers and members have worked with, and cared and advocated for, refugees… Read more
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Opening pathways to follow the call
The changes in Australian Lutheran College’s learning model and the widening of ordination pathways are making studying to become a pastor more accessible and appealing, say members of the current student cohort.
Here we are, send us!
I am a missionary. I heard God’s call and said, ‘Here I am, send me!’. And God said, ‘Okay then, I will send you to Pakenham’. Pakenham? A suburban satellite… Read more
A hearty welcome and new beginning
Post-war, one in six Lutherans was a refugee. By the mid-1960s, one in five Australians was a post-war migrant It was a topsy-turvy state of affairs. The world had been… Read more
Women’s mission secret unearthed
It doesn’t look like much, the little memo book pictured above. And yet it’s kept a secret for 150 years – a secret that changes our church’s history! Unearthed a… Read more
Buy less – and bless!
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… Read more
