Japan – LCA International Mission

The Living Witness of Ecumenical Fellowship in Asia

By Dr Mathews George Chunakara | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia Peninsula, Malaysia Sabah, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand

More than six decades ago, when church leaders in Asia gathered to envision a new form of Christian unity, they laid the foundation for what would become the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), the first regional ecumenical organisation in the world. Their guiding vision still resonates today: “Believing that the purpose of God for the […]

Day of Joy as the Lost Return Home

By Rev Naoki Sugioka | 0 comment | Categories: Japan

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘baptism’? There are hundreds of answers. Everyone has different images of what baptism means. In Japan, many people believe baptism is a ceremony you must go through to be a church member. Well, I don’t deny baptism has that kind of aspect. But this tendency to […]

Even dolls can tell of the love of God

By Rev Naoki Sugioka | 0 comment | Categories: Japan

When I was a missionary in Thailand, a Finnish missionary, Dr Lilja Kinnunen-Riipinen, taught drama at the Lutheran Institute of Theological Education in Bangkok. Every Lent, she directed a passion play – a drama of Jesus’ trial, suffering, and crucifixion performed by students and church members. One year, she had to cancel the play and was […]

No longer broken

By Pastor Paul Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Japan

‘I’m no longer broken!’ These words, spoken two years ago by a pastor who is a leader in an LCA partner church of 300,000 people in Indonesia, continue to touch my heart and remind me of the power of the gospel. As I began a four-hour seminar with leaders of that church, along with their […]

Reconciliation brings Peace and Hope

By Rev Shigeo Sueoka | 0 comment | Categories: Japan

On behalf of Kinki Evangelical Lutheran Church, I send friendly greetings to you in the Name of Christ our Lord! I am very much grateful and would like to express my sincere thanks for the Lutheran Church of Australia to send Rev Paul Kerber as a lecturer for our special seminars to teach us “Biblical […]

God is opening Global Doors

By Pastor Paul Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Japan, Scholarships

God is opening doors for the gospel to be made known throughout the world. And we are privileged to be part of what God is doing through the journey with our Lutheran mission partner churches in Indonesia and Japan. LCA International Mission has partnered with LCA Reconciliation Ministry to provide short-term scholarships for three overseas […]

Japanese Lutherans give generously

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A tsunami-disrupted visit to Asian and Australian Lutheran churches by leaders of Japan’s tiny Kinki Evangelical Lutheran Church was finally able to go ahead in December, when Adelaide hosted the group for three ‘days of discovery and grace’. Osaka-based President Rev Shigeo Sueoka, Vice President Rev Hagenonshita Terumitsu and Secretary of the Department of Overseas […]

Australian Lutherans pray for Japan

By Linda Macqueen | 0 comment | Categories: Japan

On 11 March Rev Neville Otto and Mrs Heidi Smith joined with Lutherans from Japan and elsewhere in Asia to pray for the people of Japan. Mrs Smith and Pastor Otto were representing the LCA at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Asian Church Leaders Conference in Kuala Lumpur as news of the devastating earthquake and […]

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