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As part of the implementation program of the ordination proposals from the 2024 Convention of General Synod, Dr Pauline Simonsen has been appointed as the LCANZ’s Advocate for Women in Pastoral Ministry.

At the time of writing, $10,669.25 has been contributed to the General Synod offering, which will support the Lutheran Study Centre in Pematangsiantar in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

Our Lord Jesus entered into a ‘space between the places’.

On 5 October at the 21st Regular Convention of the LCANZ, General Synod voted to enable the ordination of both women and men as pastors in the church.

Seven young representatives of Lutheran churches in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea inspired General Synod delegates, visitors, volunteers and LCANZ staff with their hope-filled witness last Friday.

As Pastor Neville Otto told worshippers during Synod’s closing service, 158 years ago Lutheran missionaries set out ‘walking wet’ from SA’s Barossa Valley to take the gospel to the state’s Far North.

All six General Church Board members who stood for re-election will serve the LCANZ again in the 2024–27 synodical period, after Synod voted them back in for another term.

General Synod has elected Pastor Stephen Schultz as Assistant Bishop of the LCANZ. Pastor Schultz has been serving the SA-NT District in the role of Assistant Bishop for Mission since 2018.

Gift. Grace. Gathered. Good (works). These words are ‘the four “Gs” of our gospel life as the church’, LCANZ Bishop Paul Smith told worshippers at today’s General Synod and St John’s Unley service.

This afternoon, 5 October 2024, General Synod resolved to support a proposal from the General Church Board and College of Bishops to remove from the LCA’s Theses of Agreement the paragraph (VI:11) which prohibits women from entering the pastoral ministry.