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PNG gives thanks for Greg Schiller

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It was indeed a thanks giving service. The seminary community with some partners from the surrounding Community’s and guests celebrated God’s goodness and faithfulness upon a life committed to the proclamation of the gospel message of our Lord Jesus Christ and the strengthening of Christian faith and the development of the Lutheran church in PNG. […]

PNG Lutheran Bishop Installed

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea

Rev Jack Urame is the new bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELC-PNG). He was installed along with fellow leaders Rev Lukas Kedabing (assistant bishop) and Mr Bernard Kaisom (general church secretary), at a worship service in the eastern port city of Lae last month. A vibrant procession featuring traditional costumes, […]

Women sharing Jesus’ love

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

From remote rural villages where routines revolve around tending gardens and carrying heavy bilums filled with sweet potatoes, firewood and children, to university lecture theatres, hospitals, offices and stores – the lives, roles and responsibilities of Papua New Guinean women are diverse and challenging. The practical needs of the women in these vastly different contexts […]

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 […]

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 […]

A fruitful beginning

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

Seven years after his first visit, Michael (also known as Mick) Hauser will soon return to the coastal city of Lae, in Papua New Guinea. His return will complete one cycle of learning for Michael, just as a new one begins. In 2008 Michael was a participant in a study tour to Papua New Guinea. […]

From ‘I can’t’ to 15 kindergartens

By Coral Gallasch | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Papua New Guinea

St Paul’s Hahndorf Congregation recently went all-out in boots, hats and denim for its Evening in the Country, raising money to support the Heldsbach Kindergarten Project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Revellers were treated to a three-course dinner and live country music. Diners were asked to get into the country theme with prizes awarded for […]

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 […]

Whose plans?

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

Emmanuel had planned to become a doctor. But his father, Pastor Walter Yalemu, had another idea. ‘My father shared his wish for me to become a pastor’, Emmanuel says.

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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PNG gives thanks for Greg Schiller

PNG Lutheran Bishop Installed

Women sharing Jesus’ love

Faith and hope built hospital in Highlands

Ties to ‘silver years’ hold strong

A fruitful beginning

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Your giving provides young people with an education

Whose plans?

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