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After the first year of a new LCANZ grants fund designed to nurture a missional culture across the church, 10 congregations have begun a journey to bring their local mission dreams into being. And the Local Mission Fund and Seed Project funding will return this year. So, if your congregation has a local mission idea that needs financial support to become a reality, these grants might be the answer to prayer.
Hundreds of LCANZ members and friends have gathered to thank God for the 75th anniversary of Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) at the places where the church’s overseas aid and development agency had its beginnings. The weekend of celebration and thanksgiving events in March centred around Albury, NSW, and Bonegilla, Victoria, where ALWS’s ministry of practical love and care had its roots in the service of a Lutheran pastor almost eight decades ago.
Jan Summers loves helping to connect the people of her Hope Valley retirement community in South Australia. Whether it’s daily letterbox drops, coffee shop gatherings, community lunches, or livestreaming weekly church services to the village nursing home, the 88-year-old is all about bringing people together within her suburban community in Adelaide’s northeastern suburbs.
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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’.
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