Jun2018
Global Day of Prayer to End Famine – Sunday 10 June 2018
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. (Matthew 25:40 NIV) In 2017 famine broke out in South Sudan and also threatened Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria. Neighbouring countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya also faced serious food shortages. The United… Read more
May2018
LCA’s ‘Growing’ goes to China
The LCA publication Growing as God’s People is now being used to encourage and foster the faith of Lisu believers in China, Myanmar and Thailand.
May2018
Responding to Islamic State inspired terrorist attacks on churches in Indonesia
Over the past few days we have seen reports in the news of multiple suicide bomb attacks on churches and police headquarters in Surabaya, in the east of Indonesia’s most populous island Java. These attacks are especially shocking because they involve whole families, including young children, carrying bombs and blowing themselves up, apparently in the… Read more
Feb2018
ALWS chief takes up global post
Australian Lutheran World Service Executive Director Chey Mattner is heading to Geneva, Switzerland, to take up a senior role with Lutheran World Federation.
Aug2017
Doing something
It’s one thing to learn about injustice and disadvantage; it’s another thing to do something. Students at a Queensland Lutheran school are setting that very example.
Nov2016
Paris Terror Attack
Once again the world has been shaken by a hideous terror attack. Lutherans in Australia and New Zealand, together with people of faith everywhere, unite in expressing our deep sympathy to the people of France, and in particular to those whose loved ones have been murdered or injured. We pray also for those who witnessed… Read more
Nov2016
‘More that unites us than divides us’
‘Today, we hear God’s command to set aside all conflict. We recognise that we are freed by grace to move towards the communion to which God continually calls us’
Oct2016
ALWS plea: ‘Help us support Mosul refugees’
Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) has made a plea for urgent support to help it care for refugees from Mosul, as the battle rages for control of the Northern Iraqi city. Recent news reports from the region said Iraqi and Kurdish forces were closing in on the former Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold. When Mosul was… Read more
Oct2016
Church agencies team up for disaster relief
Australian Lutheran World Service is part of a network of eight church agencies which has been accredited to deliver aid in the event of humanitarian disasters in the Pacific region. The Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently announced that Church Agencies Network – Disaster Operation (CAN DO) was one of the successful… Read more
Jul2016
Life and hope in the desert
I am driving out to Ali Addeh refugee camp as part of the 2016 Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) teacher study tour in the Republic of Djibouti, located in the north-east of Africa. The landscape is unlike anything I have ever seen; like something that could be used to depict a distant planet in a… Read more
