Jul2022
Lutheran education community back together
by Kate Bourne
After a two-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Conference on Lutheran Education (ACLE) was held in Melbourne earlier this month, drawing 450 in-person attendees and a further 120 people online.
Jul2022
LCANZ hosts international mission gathering
by Nathan Hedt
International mission practitioners, researchers and theologians from four different continents met last week in North Adelaide, hosted by the LCANZ’s New and Renewing Churches department at Australian Lutheran College.
May2022
Registrations open for ‘Riding the Waves of Change’ mission conference
The LCANZ’s New and Renewing Churches department will host an open-day conference on 29 June 2022 in Adelaide. All are welcome to attend, and registrations are now open.
Jul2021
Lutheran educators explore mission in schools
by Kate Bourne and Anne Dohnt
Lutheran educators are being invited to delve into the topics of ‘Mission in Lutheran schools and early childhood services’ and ‘Wellbeing through a Christian lens’.
May2021
Conferences support mission
The LCANZ’s New Horizons local mission conference program is heading to Sydney this month. The conferences are being staged across Australia and New Zealand, as the teams work together to engage with new arrivals and support congregations wanting to be more embracing of newcomers.
Feb2020
Register now for mission conference
The LCA/NZ’s New & Renewing Churches department will host a one-day mission conference in July in Adelaide and registrations are now open.
Sep2019
ALC professor and student shine at Oxford
ALC’s Associate Dean for Research, Professor Wendy Mayer, and final year PhD student Katherin Papadopoulos, recently spent a week in Oxford attending the International Conference of Patristic Studies.
Sep2019
New mission movement attracts 180 at conferences
During the last week of August and the first weekends of September, more than 180 pastors, church leaders, active and potential church planters, and others gathered for the New Horizons and SENT conferences.
Sep2019
International mission consortium meeting coming to Australia
The 2020 meeting of an international mission consortium will be held in Adelaide. Rev Dr Steen Olsen, former mission director of the SA–NT District, who attended the 2019 event in Wellington, South Africa, said that this represents an exciting opportunity for the LCA/NZ.
Mar2019
Learning from our differences
by Barbara Mattiske
Under the theme of ‘Many cultures, one faith’, we spent times of learning, by both studying the Bible and listening to speakers, all of whom shared with love and passion about their ministries.