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When people think of pilgrimage, many imagine a once-in-a-lifetime journey, such as crossing the Pyrenees on the Camino de Santiago. But while Bethany Marsh has known similar challenges and blessings as a pilgrim, her experience of the spiritual discipline is very different.
There is not one exclusive pathway to ordination in the LCANZ. There are in fact four pathways, which are explained in the ‘Candidacy Pathways for the Office of the Public Ministry’ document released to the church recently.
Having met as teachers at a Lutheran college more than 50 years ago, Lois and Lyall Kupke have continued to serve their church throughout their lives together, believing as St Paul told the church in Corinth that ‘nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever useless’.
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Pastor Mark Schultz has accepted a call from the LCANZ to serve as the church’s Assistant to the Bishop – International Mission from next year. Despite serving for 18 years at Sydney’s LifeWay Lutheran Church, Pastor Mark wasn’t looking for a change. However, God had a new plan for the lead pastor at the multi-ethnic, multi-site church.
Who was John the Baptist? Just a Grizzly Adams-type mountain man wearing a tunic of camel’s hair and eating grasshoppers dipped in honey? Pastor Reid Matthias reflects on the unorthodox life of this desert wanderer, whose role was to ‘go on before the Lord to prepare a way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation [and] to guide our feet into the path of peace’.
‘The good news of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is deeper and lasting beyond simply happy feelings’, LCANZ Bishop Paul Smith says in his ‘Because we bear your name’ column in the lead-up to Christmas. ‘The telling of the nativity story is great joy. God has become enfleshed and dwelt among us out of great love for all humankind.’
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General Synod voted in October to enable the ordination of both women and men as pastors in the church. Delegates supported a proposal from the General Church Board and College of Bishops to remove from the LCA’s Theses of Agreement the paragraph that prohibited women from entering the pastoral ministry.
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