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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.
The LCANZ’s General Synod has elected Pastor Stephen Schultz as Assistant Bishop of the church. Assistant Bishop Stephen has been serving the SA-NT District in the role of Assistant Bishop for Mission since 2018. Former Assistant Bishop Neville Otto, who served in the post for one term, did not stand for re-election.
A five-level building in the Adelaide CBD will become the new home for Australian Lutheran College and the Churchwide Office. The building is located at 139 Frome Street, Adelaide, in close proximity to Bethlehem and St Stephen’s Lutheran churches. The acquisition of this property follows the sale of the LCANZ’s properties in North Adelaide.
When Ros O’Donohoe explains the story of the inspirational ‘Meet and Eat’ ministry, there’s a phrase that comes up again and again. ‘It’s the Father’s ministry.’ These words are a testament to the faith Ros draws on as she and a team of helpers prepare and serve dinner for 80 to 90 people most Monday evenings.
The LCANZ’s entire 1.9-hectare property at North Adelaide is under multiple contracts, with the total purchase price exceeding market evaluations. Expressions of interest (EOI) for the property closed in May and all successful EOI applicants have agreed to all LCANZ terms and conditions of sale.
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