May2022
Come walk, pray – and vote – with us!
Many Christians give prayerful consideration to voting, but an SA Lutheran college and congregation are reaching out to their local community by inviting them to walk through a prayer labyrinth on federal election day.
May2022
With God all things are possible
by Helen Brinkman
Matthew 19:26 assures us that, ‘with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’. Retiree Robert ‘Rob’ Krause reflects on that Bible verse when he thinks of the decades of service he has provided to his local community. It is service provided simply because he has seen a need.
Apr2022
From the desert to the valley
Just as early German missionaries travelled north from Bethany to Ntaria, so the Ntaria Choir set off, this time, southward-bound to the Barossa Valley to share their gifts of music and language.
Apr2022
Cracking the code of our hidden stories
by Helen Brinkman
At Lutheran Archives in suburban Adelaide, up to 100 years of stories from Australia’s past are disguised in a largely forgotten handwritten German cursive script known as Kurrentschrift.
Mar2022
Gifts in the wood
Retired farmer Albert has always been good with his hands. Now he’s combining his passion for woodwork with supporting Australian Lutheran World Service.
Mar2022
Prayer vigil a light for community
A day-long prayer vigil for Ukraine brings the light of Christ into an Adelaide Hills community.
Mar2022
Sun shines on hearts of gold
A series of ‘God-incidences’ has turned a Lutheran farming family’s surplus hay paddock and 30,000 sunflower seeds into a golden field of hope for children with congenital heart disease in South Australia.
Mar2022
Finding a gift in the wood
by Helen Brinkman
One of the first wood carvings Albert Noll ever created was a carved wooden message: ‘Blessed by the grace of God’.
Feb2022
Sharing love – no small bickies
A packet of biscuits made with love changed Craig’s life: ‘I knew God was speaking to me. [The biscuits were] a reminder that God hadn’t forgotten about me.’
Nov2021
Walking God’s way in the big blue
by Helen Beringen
To Rosemary Lange, it looked like a blue waterfall coming towards the vineyard where she was waiting for her husband Kevin to appear among 650 blue t-shirts. Then she spotted Kevin, at 83 the oldest to complete the full 26-kilometre trail of Walk My Way.
