2017 – Page 6 – LCA International Mission

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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 […]

Coconut Chicken Pho

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Serves 4 Ingredients 4 chicken thighs 4 cups coconut water (or water) 5 cm piece of ginger peeled and thinly sliced (julienne strips) 1 shallot finely chopped 1/3 cup kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) 2 star anise 1 cinnamon quill 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped ½ tsp Chinese five spice powder 2 tbsp fish sauce […]

‘Border Crossings’ Issue 21

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Please enjoy this issue of Border Crossings and read about how God’s love is coming to life through the word-and-action gospel work of our partner churches.

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 […]

Warm-hearted Lutheran women

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

Elvilina shivered as she came through the airport doors and was greeted by the icy wind and rain blowing across the Adelaide airport walkway. The hot and humid climate of Nias, a small island off the coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia was left far behind as she began her eight week, LCA International Mission sabbatical […]

‘Please pray for our people’

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah

For many of us, when we think about life in a small village in Asia, we picture a life with less pressure and stress, an existence without reliance on mobile phones and facebook, and being surrounded by family and community. Latina lives in a village in the north of Sabah where, from the green surroundings […]

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