Apr2020
Lutheran churches making news
Many churches around the LCA/NZ have been using innovative ways to stay connected with their wider communities – and some have even made it into mainstream newspapers.
Apr2020
Sharing ‘contact-less’ love, hope and care this Easter
Lutheran Tract Mission has an easy, fast and free way to share God’s love and the hope he gives this Easter without leaving your home – simply send an e-tract!
Jul2019
‘Come as a stranger, leave as a friend’
by Helen Beringen
For nine years from February to December 86-year-old Owen Uebergang has been serving up soup and making friends with those he meets at a special Monday evening gathering in suburban Adelaide.
Jul2018
Little witnesses share good news
by Anne Hanson
Every month or so for at least 10 years, a man has been coming to the Lutheran Tract Mission (LTM) office in North Adelaide to pick up 500 copies of the tract entitled ‘You are a special person’. This is just one story of someone sharing faith through tracts.
Jul2018
Sharing bread with a caring heart
by Helen Beringen
Every week a small group of retirees from Bethlehem Morley (WA) congregation makes 120 sandwiches and 200 pancakes for students of a local high school.
Sep2016
Listen, help, act: thrive in a changing world
by LCA Communications
‘If the local church is going to succeed, then it needs to find God’s preferred and promised future within its community’, Professor Pastor Patrick Keifert challenged participants at the LCA Board for Local Mission’s ‘Thriving in Change’ conference series. He started with the premise that ‘each local church [of the apostolic era] understood themselves to… Read more
