‘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.

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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.

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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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