SA-NT

by LCA Communications

It seems no-one at Tatachilla Lutheran College, south of Adelaide, is in any doubt who the school’s most popular staff member is. It’s Odie. Odie is a 14-year-old golden retriever. Next to his name on his official staff photo, the description of his role at Tatachilla is simply ‘Dog’. But college pastor Jon Goessling, Odie’s… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Former Lutheran Education Queensland executive director Dr Roger Hunter has received an Order of Australia award in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for service to education, and to professional organisations. Roger, from Indooroopilly Queensland, also was a board member of Australian Lutheran College from 1990 to 2010. He headed up Lutheran education in Queensland… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Budding Lutheran songwriters in South Australia now have a new outlet for their creativity – the New Song Café. The project, which had its opening night at Adelaide’s Halifax Café last month, is designed to foster the development of Christian songwriters. Six people performed mostly original songs before a crowd of about 35 at the… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Cycling star Kieran Modra has been named in the Australian team to compete at his eighth Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this year. A member at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Hallett Cove, in suburban Adelaide, Kieran will be the most experienced member of Australia’s 16-strong cycling team. The vision-impaired athlete has represented… Read more

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by Janette Lange

It was an unlikely place to start an urban church. For starters, it was in the middle of grain fields and dairy farms. Secondly, there weren’t any Lutherans there. In fact, there weren’t any people there! But the SA Home Mission Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia had faith they would come. This… Read more

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by LCA Communications

The giant Unity (or Christ) Candle has started this month at Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, for that state’s meeting of District Synod on 3–5 June. The candle, which also recently attended the SA/NT District Convention in the South Australian Riverland and the Lutheran Women of SA/NT’s 50th anniversary at St Petri Nuriootpa in the… Read more

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by John Thiel

Three adult baptisms within a few months at any one congregation is a story worth sharing. When that one congregation is based at a Lutheran aged care facility, it’s something worth shouting from the proverbial rooftops! Little wonder then that Pastor John Thiel, chaplain at Tanunda Lutheran Home in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, is excited… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Some big names in Barossa Valley winemaking have worshipped together at a special Lutherans in Wine service at Tanunda SA. The winemakers and grapegrowers gathered with other worshippers at Tanunda Lutheran Home’s Gramp Chapel last month for the event. The service, which also celebrated Ascension Day and Mother’s Day, featured readings by retired winemakers Rod… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Lutheran pastor Russell Bryant and other artists from remote Aboriginal communities on South Australia’s Far West Coast, have taken a message of peace to Japan. The message was in the form of a bronze sculpture, which now stands in the Nagasaki’s Peace Park. The gift from the communities of Yalata, Oak Valley/Maralinga, whose land and… Read more

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by Janette Lange

Located in the South Australian Riverland, the town of Loxton quite literally put on its warmest welcome the day the Premier of SA, Sir Thomas Playford, came to town for a special opening of a building in 1965. Sunday 21 February 1965 started off with warm weather. By 2.30 pm when the service began, the… Read more

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