For some people, whether teens or adults, confirmation lessons might as well be double Dutch. Some aspects of theology can be hard enough to get your head around, even in your mother tongue, but it’s all the harder when you have to struggle also with a foreign language. Increasingly, the Bible is becoming available in […]
On 6 January 2013, Anita Synnott and Glenice Hartwich participated in a historic occasion: the installation of the first bishop of the fledgling Myanmar Lutheran Church. Rev Cr Andrew Mang Lone was installed by Rev Bishop Philip Lok of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia (LCM) during a worship service in Yangon, Myanmar. There was great […]
Stamps for Mission are donating $2000 to the Abdi Sabda Seminary prison ministry, Medan, Indonesia. Abdi Sabda seminary Prison Ministry team is just one of the six mission projects supported through the Stamps for Mission program in 2013. Each week the enthusiastic group of faithful students studying at Abdi Sabda seminary, go into the prisons […]
In November 2012, eleven Year 11 students and three staff, completed a Mission trip in Cambodia. Lutheran World Mission in Singapore organised the trip for the team from Unity College and joining us was a team from Singapore, Hong Kong, other Australians, as well as locals from Cambodia to make up one Mission team.
Suicide was on the mind of 19-year-old Sreyleak. Sreyleak’s father had died when she was eight years old. Now her mother was planning to remarry, despite the children’s opposition. Sreyleak’s family were impoverished and her three siblings (the youngest being only four years of age) had decided to stay with their paternal grandmother instead of […]
Navigator College is a Lutheran school in Port Lincoln, situated on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. As an emerging school within the Lutheran education network, Navigator has been working hard to develop opportunities for its students, including service learning, a key aspect of Christian education. As our school established its learning program, we were […]
If I said chilli, lemongrass, ginger and rice, would you think of unity? If I said coriander, garlic, chicken curry and noodle soup, would you think of reformation? If I said beef rendang, Sumatran chicken curry, mie goreng or nasi goreng, would you think of Indonesia? If I said bread and wine, the body and […]
When Rev James San Aung from the Myanmar Lutheran Church and Rev Martin Lalthangliana from the Lutheran Church of Myanmar returned to their home country of Myanmar (Burma), they were full of thankfulness to you! Through your offerings, you made it possible for James and Martin to receive a short term scholarship to study theology […]
The word ‘connect’ is bandied about like cardboard coffee cups – used too frequently and then thrown away, its value rarely appreciated. For, like the underrated cardboard cup, the word ‘connect’ contains something deliciously addictive. ‘Connect is all about relationships and all the potential that lies within them. To connect is to make contact, be […]
David and Ruth Craig are not your ordinary couple. Since retirement they have given large amounts of their time as volunteer teachers of English through the LCA Board for Mission’s volunteer program. Read what they said about their latest experience. We were privileged to go as volunteers to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for two months in […]