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LCA’s Local Mission department is set to launch new resources to help with the Great Commission of sharing the good news of Jesus with others. They will include a new book by LCA Church Planting Mentor and Mission Facilitator Dean Eaton featuring small group activities and bonus resources. The book and small group study, called… Read more

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by Pauline Simonsen

To start 2017, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Lutherans from New Zealand,Australia and Germany made a pilgrimage to the first place in the world to greet the new year – the Chatham Islands. The group’s visit was planned as a unique commemoration of the Reformation milestone and the history of the Lutheran Church of New Zealand…. Read more

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by Marilyn Wall

More than 25 Aboriginal pastors, evangelists and church workers from Central Australia have attended the 2016 Docker River ‘Big Course’ to learn about the LCA’s Standards of Ethical Behaviour policy, with some travelling more than 600 kilometres to take part. Held over three days in October, the course was part of the Finke River Mission’s… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Students from Lutheran Ormeau Rivers District School (LORDS) at Pimpama on Queensland’s Gold Coast recently found a unique way to recognise the LCA’s 50.500 initiative and celebrate their own milestone. At the school’s chapel assembly on Reformation Day the students from years 3, 4 and 6 created the 500 sign out of the LORDS and… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Indigenous leader Andrea Mason has been named the Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year. Ms Mason, who worships at Alice Springs Lutheran Church, is the Chief Executive of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, which supports and advocates for 3000 women across a 350,000-square-kilometre area of Central Australia. The council works with women… Read more

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by LCA Communications

LCA Bishop John Henderson has joined hundreds of religious leaders from around the world in adding their names to an interfaith statement urging the world’s political leaders to take swift and just action on climate change. Bishop Henderson signed the statement last month on behalf of the district bishops and the LCA. The statement was… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Timothy Pietsch has been appointed to organise the church-wide consultation on a draft doctrinal statement regarding the ordination of women and men in the LCA. The LCA’s Commission on Theology and Inter-church Relations (CTICR) has produced a preliminary draft doctrinal statement and commentary in response to synod’s resolution at last year’s General Convention. It was… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Lutheran Ryan Grieger has been named Australia’s top apprentice. A member of the Zion congregation at Swan Reach on the Murray River in South Australia, Ryan last month took out a gold medal in the carpentry category at the WorldSkills Australia National Competition in Melbourne. He also earned the Tjerk Dusseldorp Award for Best in… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) has made a plea for urgent support to help it care for refugees from Mosul, as the battle rages for control of the Northern Iraqi city. Recent news reports from the region said Iraqi and Kurdish forces were closing in on the former Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold. When Mosul was… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Australian Lutheran World Service is part of a network of eight church agencies which has been accredited to deliver aid in the event of humanitarian disasters in the Pacific region. The Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently announced that Church Agencies Network – Disaster Operation (CAN DO) was one of the successful… Read more

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