synod2024

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.

Ten LCANZ congregations will be supported in outreach endeavours through the inaugural grants from the church’s Local Mission Fund. The fund is designed to enhance a mission culture across the church.