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When people filled Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Adelaide to listen to the launch of The Lutheran Hour radio program in Australia on 2 September 1945, they could not have known what that event would set in motion. That broadcast effectively was the birth of an enduring and life-changing outreach ministry, which today, 80 years on, we know (and love) as Lutheran Media.
Learning to see God’s messages in the simple, everyday things of life has enabled 81-year-old Bernie Dewar to share God’s love on the airwaves. Through a weekly radio program produced by her local congregation and broadcast on a northern Adelaide community radio station, Bernie writes, presents and shares short devotional messages.
ALWS has a rich history of working in partnership with Lutheran schools, a collaboration evolving from the close connection between our church and its schools. Together we can help grow students who have hearts of compassion and purpose. We encourage our young people to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, serving and meeting the needs of communities, both locally and globally.
Australian Lutheran College’s (ALC) library has reopened at its new Adelaide CBD premises at 22 Pulteney Street. The relocation of the huge ALC collection is a result of the sale of the North Adelaide ALC campus and LCANZ Churchwide Office (CWO) buildings. College and CWO staff will relocate to the new Church House at 139 Frome Street, Adelaide, this year.
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.
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.
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.
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