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The community of the Albury and Wodonga ‘twin’ cities, which straddle Australia’s Murray River and the New South Wales-Victoria border, has a history of being big-hearted. So, with humanitarian service seemingly woven into residents’ DNA, it’s no surprise that the region boasts a team of people with nimble fingers, willing hands and hearts for helping others.
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While every Walk My Way event is a special chance to show practical support through Australian Lutheran World Service for children whose lives are impacted by war and poverty, there was another reason this year’s Adelaide event was extra special, with the 3 May event doubling as the public farewell to the North Adelaide site of Australian Lutheran College.
Joyful praise has rung out among Lutheran communities across Australia and in New Zealand in recent months, as the LCANZ has welcomed seven new pastors – bringing to eight the total of ordinations so far this year. Seven people joined the LCANZ’s ordained ministry ranks within six weeks in April and May, including three women in what has been a first for the church.
For more than 60 years, retired teachers Trevor and Liz Winderlich have been working together to plant and grow schools in Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), sowing seeds of faith for God to harvest. Trevor and Liz’s wedding text from Psalm 37:5, ‘Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act’, reflects God’s continued grace as they tend to his earthly garden.
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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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