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.

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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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‘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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