Feb2016
New Face for New Zealand radio
by LCA Communications
Lutheran Media’s flagship radio program Face to Face will be heard on New Zealand’s most popular commercial stations from this month (February 2016). Face to Face will air in prime time on Newstalk ZB and The Hits radio stations throughout Auckland. Lutheran Media director Pastor Richard Fox said the programs would reach out to more… Read more
Feb2016
Where’s the Unity Candle now?
by LCA Communications
The giant Unity Candle (or Christ Candle) has had a busy schedule over the past month. It burned brightly at the 2016 opening service for staff of the LCA’s national office (pictured above at Immanuel, North Adelaide), and then made the road trip to South Australia’s Mid-North for the opening service of the newly amalgamated… Read more
Feb2016
Where’s the unity candle?
by LCA Communications
The giant unity or Christ candle did a wonderful job of reminding people at last year’s LCA General Convention in Queensland to be prayerful and exhibit a spirit of unity. The wax behemoth, which originally weighed in at a whopping 22 kilos, now resides at the LCA national office in North Adelaide. It is available… Read more
Feb2016
Record crowd for carols
by LCA Communications
A record crowd of around 4000 people attended the Community Carols by Candlelight in December at Jacobs Well, Queensland, almost tripling the population of the cane-farming community between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Bethlehem Lutheran Church Woongoolba has hosted the annual carols night as an outreach to the local community for the past 24 years…. Read more
Jan2016
2015/16 LCA scholarship recipients
by LCA Communications
The following people are the successful applicants for LCA scholarships to study in the 2015/2016 year. Name Parish Study Institution Joanne Knobel Jindera parish Cert IV Christian Ministry Australian Lutheran College Chris Bartlett Emmanuel Lutheran Fellowship, Toowoomba Masters of Education Queensland Uni of Technology, Lutheran electives, through ALC Sharon Beck St Paul’s, Sydney Grad Dip… Read more
Jan2016
Is our church really a safe place?
by LCA Communications
Most publicity surrounding the ongoing Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has focused on the larger churches in Australia, but the LCA ‘is not immune’ from this scourge. That’s the view of LCA Professional Standards Director Liz Crawford, who attended the Safe Church Network of the National Council of Churches biennial conference… Read more
Jan2016
Special Ministry Fund grants for 2015/16
by LCA Communications
The object of the LCA Special Ministry Fund is to provide grants for specific ministry projects within the LCA which are consistent with the church’s strategic direction and normally could not be undertaken with funds from the LCA or and LCA district. Applications are accepted year-round. The successful grant applicants for 2015/16 are in the… Read more
Jan2016
Governor’s country church Christmas
by Lorraine Fielke
Having a state governor attend your little country church on Christmas Eve and do a Bible reading, then bring his family to join yours for Christmas Day lunch sounds like the stuff of a movie script. But that was the true story of Christmas 2015 for Ken and Daphne Schwarz, members of Bookpurnong Lutheran Church,… Read more
Jan2016
Ready and able to serve our church
by LCA Communications
Life experience – and being called by God – has prepared two women to take on senior roles for the LCA. Glenice Hartwich (pictured above) has been appointed as Assistant to the Bishop – International Mission, having served as the LCA’s Interim Mission Director while continuing as Program Officer since early 2015, when former director… Read more
Dec2015
Lutherans commit to fight slavery
by LCA Communications
The Lutheran Church of Australia is one of 15 Australian religious organisations and communities which are supporting a global campaign to end slavery. On 2 December, the World Day for the Abolition of Slavery, New South Wales District Bishop Mark Lieschke signed a joint declaration on behalf of LCA Bishop John Henderson, condemning all forms… Read more
