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Feb 17 2016
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Faith and hope built hospital in Highlands

By Dr Eric Hoopmann | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

I was born on 18 June 1924 at Yorketown in South Australia into a family with a long background history of involvement with the church and mission work. My maternal great-grandfather was a missionary amongst the Tamil people of India before coming to Australia. My paternal grandfather was sent out to Australia from Germany by […]

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Dec 23 2015
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Church is not a building but the people of God

By Anna Reichenbach and Matt Higgins | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

During October and November 2015, Matt and I volunteered to teach English in Indonesia. I studied Indonesian at university and was teaching it at Living Waters Lutheran Primary School, Alice Springs. While still at university, I had a desire to use my language skills abroad. I therefore had spoken with Glenice Hartwich about mission opportunities […]

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Dec 06 2015
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Word and water with power and purpose

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Immense hardship and deep sorrow have filled much of Kert Voun’s 64 years of life. Married in 1975, her husband and two of her infant sons died during those murderous years of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Her second husband, whom she married in 1979, died just one year later, leaving her to care […]

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Nov 29 2015
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12,000 voices praising God!

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

The competition was intense and the songs of praise articulated with joy and precision as 28 groups vied for the title of the best women’s choir of the Huria Batak Protestan church (HKBP) in Indonesia on Saturday, 28 November. Women in a kaleidoscope of coloured kebayas (traditional Indonesia formal women’s dress), brightly painted lips and […]

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Oct 09 2015
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Life-transforming partnerships

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Sitting on the hard wooden bed inside her home, Who Met reflects on the most recent years of her life lived in rural Cambodia. Words that describe the atrocities and deep hurt experienced during the Pol Pot regime remain unuttered. At seventy years of age Who Met, like other women her age should be sitting […]

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Oct 03 2015
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Filled with joy

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

The joy on Ung Ein’s face is evident as she sits on the bench with her friends from the village of Krus, Cambodia waiting for the bible study to begin following her midday time meal. Ung Ein first started coming to the Life Centre following her retirement in 2011 as a primary school teacher. Since […]

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Sep 21 2015
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Free from Fear

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand

Sei’s heart races as the sound of the vehicle winding its way up the steep slopes leading into Huay Me village reaches her ears. She straightens up, drops the tools she has been using to plant her dry rice and races back to her village. In her haste to meet Ajan Amnuay, Sei slips over, […]

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Sep 20 2015
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Lifestyles of reconciliation

By James Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

James Kerber is four years into a five-year double degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Passionate about youth ministry, James joined his father, Rev Paul Kerber, for a week in North Sumatra, Indonesia, teaching on lifestyles of reconciliation with people from our Lutheran overseas partner churches. Pastor Kerber is the LCA Assistant to the Bishop, […]

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Aug 25 2015
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Ties to ‘silver years’ hold strong

By Rosie Schefe | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Memories and connections to warm, distant places drew almost 90 people to the fourth annual Fritzsche Oration, held at Australian Lutheran College in Adelaide on a wet and cold August evening. In his welcoming remarks, Principal James Winderlich asked audience members to indicate how many had served in Papua New Guinea, and how many had […]

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