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‘Conflict is a values clash. When a conflict happens, it’s always around something valuable to us and therefore has some emotions attached to it. However, if we’re in a conflict and we don’t see the other person’s perspective, even if we win, we lose.’ That’s the view of Pastor Chris Mann, who helps workplaces deal with conflict as well as serving a Lutheran school community.
A Congregational Life website designed to support congregations and agencies in areas including worship, pastoral care, discipleship and faith teaching, outreach and church planting, and community service is being developed by the church. It is one of the outcomes of a report addressing the LCANZ’s ministry challenges.
Hedley Scholz credits dairy farming for giving him his strong voice. To be more precise he says it’s a credit to the cows and the working dogs which herded them. It’s this upbringing that has established a voice perfect for lay reading, a service that Hedley has provided to his local Lutheran congregations for the past 70 years.
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Some years ago, Angela Mayer says God led her to work in men’s behaviour change programs and, through the people she met, she became passionate about working to improve the lives of families experiencing domestic violence. ‘We can change people’s lives, increase safety and help them feel the love of God in their homes and families’, she says.
Pastor Richard Schwedes will be the next bishop of the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory District of the LCANZ. Pastor Richard, who will also have oversight of the Lutheran Church of New Zealand, was elected during the district’s 40th Convention of Synod at Wagga Wagga NSW in March.
In the Hoff family, teaching isn’t the only thing that runs in the blood. So does the sentiment embroidered on a family tapestry hand-sewn by Rob Hoff’s maternal grandmother Elsa Sickerdick: ‘Faith without service means nothing.’ It is a motto that Elsa’s grandson Rob Hoff takes to heart.
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Many of us have heard the saying ‘beauty is only skin deep’ or the notion that having a good personality is more important than being good-looking. But do we really believe that? Do we spend an unhealthy amount of time, energy and money on our physical appearance, or do we want to look our best simply because our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit?
There’s special symbolism in a small wooden Christmas tree sitting in the local Lutheran church in the regional Victorian town of Nhill. Not only does it remind us of the birth of Jesus Christ, but this tree’s peculiar decorations also remind us of the new life Jesus brings. This is because the adornments completely covering the tree’s trunk and boughs are damaged, used postage stamps.
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