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Feb 02 2015
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Where love comes to life in the floodwaters of Cambodia

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Rising floodwaters engulfed the village of Koh Keo late last year, but 63-year-old widow Mom Kham had seen it all before, many times over. Each year monsoonal rains have brought isolation and havoc to Mom Kham’s village and to villages in many parts of the Kampong Chhnang and other Cambodian provinces.

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Jan 09 2015
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Your giving provides young people with an education

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea

The life of pastors and their families living and working in remote and rural areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is challenging in many respects. For many pastors, they receive no salary, but only goods in kind as their wages for the ministry amongst the people they are called to serve. Sometimes a ‘bilum’ (traditional […]

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Dec 27 2014
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Hearing in our language

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar

A crowd had gathered in anticipation of the visit and pressed into the room, sitting cross-legged on the floor, listening intently to the message about Jesus, telling stories of their experiences of being healed following the first visit in February, and now coming forward for anointing and prayer.

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Nov 28 2014
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Building the backbone

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea

For several decades Lutheran women from Australia and other countries served in Papua New Guinea (PNG) training schools and as teachers in the districts and churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELCPNG). Mainly they were deaconesses, teachers or the wives of expatriate staff serving as missionaries. Many served in Meri Wok […]

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Nov 17 2014
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A Gift of Light and Love

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea

‘We have proper light to work with them rather than using lamps or torches like before’… with these words Sister Roselyn Lote, Officer In Charge at the Tawa Health Centre (Lutheran Health Services) in the remote area in the Menyamya District of Papua New Guinea (PNG), shares her thanks to you for your gift to […]

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Oct 28 2014
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Lutheran Women help to build foundations

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Scholarships

Building foundations might not necessarily be an activity on the calendar of the women’s fellowship meeting. And they may not easily make the connections to building relationships in Myanmar, Indonesia or Papua New Guinea each time they give, make, bake or buy something at the trading table at their Lutheran Women of Australia (LWA) meeting. […]

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Oct 28 2014
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Why wouldn’t you?

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Malaysia Peninsula

At Rumah Chrestus, a home in Malaysia for children who have been orphaned or abused, some of the littlies say that prayer is the best part of living there. That’s not surprising really, since Rumah Chrestus means Home of Christ, and the presence of the living Christ is strongly felt in this home, thanks to […]

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