Stories – Page 34 – LCA International Mission

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Excited about a shared future

By Brenda May | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

Wide eyes, beautiful singing, delicious food, busy traffic, different cultural experiences, and unfamiliar sights, smells and sounds were some of my experiences while visiting schools and meeting with Lutheran church and educational leaders in northern Sumatra on the recent Australian Lutheran principals and teachers trip there. It has been good to take time to reflect […]

Learning to be Partners in Mission

By Judy Minge | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

In March this year, seven Australian Lutheran schools (Victory College Wodonga, Faith College Tanunda, Tanunda Lutheran Primary, Unity College Murray Bridge, Endeavour College Mawson Lakes and St Martins College Mt Gambier) sent educators for a visit with LCA International Mission to explore the possibility of partnerships with Indonesian Lutheran schools. Judy Minge was a participant […]

Meeting God in the unknown

By Hanna Schmidt | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

My name is Hanna and I volunteered in Thailand with LCA International Mission. Before I had really looked into volunteering internationally, I thought that mission looked like building houses for people. I asked God how he could possibly think it is a good idea to send me to help someone in need. I spent a […]

The next step after my Australian scholarship

By Rev Samuel Wang | 0 comment | Categories: Scholarships, Singapore

From January this year, the Lutheran Church in Singapore (LCS) assigned me to Trinity Theological College (TTC). It is a college governed by the Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches in Singapore. There are two language departments in the school, Chinese and English. I am teaching in the English department as well as offering pastoral […]

God’s wonders celebrated at Luther Seminary in Thailand

By Dr Greg Lockwood | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

It was a fourfold celebration that Friday afternoon in the lovely chapel at Luther Seminary Thailand in Bangkok: First and foremost, as this was 24 March, the eve of the Annunciation festival, we celebrated the Archangel Gabriel’s announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would bear the Christchild. ‘For with God nothing will be impossible.’ […]

Change for Bible Translators

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Translation, Papua New Guinea

The oversight of LCA Bible translation work, including that by Hanna Schulz in Papua New Guinea and Margaret Mickan in the Northern Territory, has changed. Lutheran Bible Translators Australia (LBTA), which has overseen the promotion of Bible translation and literacy work within the LCA for 35 years, has been wound up in its current form […]

Blessed by culture change

By Hanna Schmidt | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

Through LCA International Mission Volunteers in Mission program I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Thailand to experience the way people are serving others in Bangkok. Last December I volunteered at Home of Grace, which supports unmarried pregnant women, mothers and babies. I felt a childlike sense of wonder learning about Thai culture. One […]

Gospel partnerships bring peace

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Thailand

Did you know that by supporting LCA International Mission you sponsor a team of evangelists in the Thailand province of Nan as they share the gospel with the Lua people there? Through your prayers and donations, you and St Paul’s Lutheran Church Wellington, in New Zealand – which is a congregational partner in this mission […]

Smiles tell of true joy

By Randall Boland, Erin Kerber, Sam Curtis and Kayla Size | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Malaysia Peninsula

When he was 25 [Bahman] prayed to God for healing. He had a dream in which a bottle of alcohol was thrown at his head. Not one to ignore the obvious, he immediately knew what needed to happen.

Building a brighter future

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

Herlina Sihombing’s mother and father died when she was young. Family members took them in and they were spread out between households. It’s a situation many of us are blessed not to have been through. But Herlina knows firsthand the heartache and loneliness of losing parents as a child and uses this knowledge to help […]

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