Jun2020
Lutherans join in singing blessing over Australia
Members of two LCA congregations have added their voices to the Australian version of ecumenical internet music video The Blessing. More than 300 churches, worship leaders, artists and Christian ministry groups from around the nation took part in the project, which premiered on YouTube on 7 June.
Mar2020
Myanmar church gives to bushfire relief
In a moving show of generosity and Christian partnership, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Myanmar/Lutheran Bethlehem Church has donated three Sundays’ worth of offerings towards bushfire relief through the LCA/NZ.
Feb2020
Gaining a global view
Before Australian Chey Mattner became LWF’s World Service Head of Operations, he was an Australian Lutheran World Service Executive Director. Hear from Chey about serving the church in an international setting.
Jan2020
Overseas churches offer support in bushfire crisis
Overseas Lutheran church leaders have expressed their sympathy, support and prayers for members of the LCA/NZ in the midst of the bushfire crisis in Australia.
Dec2019
40,000 refugee children supported to go to school
Thanks to the generosity of our Lutheran family, 40,000 refugee children in East Africa will be supported to go to school.
Dec2019
God’s love draws us closer
Srey Lin grew up as a Buddhist: ‘I didn’t have anything inside to know I was able to pray’. Then, in the Lutheran church in a Cambodian village, she is baptised, together with her mother.
Sep2019
Love – in dangerous places
South Sudan, Burundi and Somalia are some of the toughest and most dangerous places on earth for an aid agency to work. Yet, through ALWS, our Australian and New Zealand Lutheran family is there.
Sep2019
ALC professor and student shine at Oxford
ALC’s Associate Dean for Research, Professor Wendy Mayer, and final year PhD student Katherin Papadopoulos, recently spent a week in Oxford attending the International Conference of Patristic Studies.
Sep2019
International mission consortium meeting coming to Australia
The 2020 meeting of an international mission consortium will be held in Adelaide. Rev Dr Steen Olsen, former mission director of the SA–NT District, who attended the 2019 event in Wellington, South Africa, said that this represents an exciting opportunity for the LCA/NZ.
May2019
United across nations to work for justice
by Rebecca Anderson
I have been working as an intern at the Lutheran Office for World Community (LOWC) in New York since February.
