admin – Page 16 – LCA International Mission

()

Malaysian bishop drowns in boating accident

0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

Bishop Julius Paul, head of one of the LCA’s partner churches, died when the boat he was travelling on capsized off Guatemala, South America, on 22 November. Two other passengers were killed. Peter Schirmer, executive secretary of Australian Lutheran World Service, was one of the twelve survivors. Bishop Paul was the leader of the Evangelical […]

Feb 23 2009

Crossing Cultures

By Emilie Traeger | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Singapore

Giraffe was held in Singapore in December as a joint venture of the LCA and Lutheran Church in Singapore. It was a cross-cultural community of 21: eight Singaporeans, eight Australians and five Malaysians. We gathered as a very diverse bunch! We came from different cultures and countries and with different heart languages (various Chinese dialects […]

Welcome to the Jungle

By Mick Hauser | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah, Volunteers and Supporters

Head hunters, jungle treks and “Selamat Datang” – Senior Resident Houseparent at St Peters Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, Quuensland, Michael Hauser, discovered the Malaysian province of Sabah can be an open-armed wilderness in need of the basic supplies of life which we take for granted. Along with Dominic Rainsford, a teacher from Crossways Lutheran School Ceduna, […]

LCA farewells ‘the face of our church in Asia’

0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

The LCA has farewelled one of its most senior and respected officers, Pastor Wayne Zweck, who retired on 31 October. Pastor Zweck had served the church for 40 years as parish pastor and LCA secretary/mission director. This latter role had been described by some as ‘two full-time jobs, and probably more’. He was LCA vice-president […]

Lamingtons foster cross-cultural friendships

0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

‘What is this cake I have seen in women’s magazines?’ asked one of the visitors from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Malaysia (ELCM). ‘I have always wanted to try one.’ It was a lamington. So began an intense women-to-women discussion about food and cooking. Cross-cultural friendships formed around lamingtons are no less important than those […]

One shirt between two

By Lois Whittall | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Volunteers and Supporters

When my husband Roger and I were in Preah Vihear, Northern Cambodia, a woman came to the World Vision office seeking help. Her two young grandsons lived with her because their mother had died. They only had one shirt between them, so they took it in turns to go to school because you need to […]

Dalam Yesus Kita Bersaudara

By Anne Collyer, Joel Cramer, Esther Kleinig, Michael Lang and Ariel Pfitzner | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah, Volunteers and Supporters

What were our experiences in meeting young people and observing youth ministry in Sabah? We were challenged to learn new skills and build on established ones. We spent time with both the youth and their coordinators, sharing, through our translators, the similarities and differences between youth programs in Sabah and those in Victoria (eg Christian […]

I hated the word

By Pastor Wayne Zweck | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea

Growing up as a pastor’s kid had its advantages. When church dignitaries from the USA visited Australia, we got to meet them. When Nestlé introduced and sponsored instant coffee and Ideal Milk at the 1956 convention of Synod, we got to try it. When two Papua New Guineans came down with Missionary Keith Nagel, they […]

Vietnamese Cold Rolls

0 comment | Categories: Recipes

Ingredients 50g Vermicelli noodles (broken) 1 tbs cooking oil 2 chicken breast fillets (350g) or thinly sliced 1/2 BBQ chicken Small red capsicum, thinly sliced 1 cup bean sprouts 2 tbs chopped mint 2 tbs chopped coriander 1 tbs plum sauce 2 tbs fish sauce 2 tbs sweet chilli sauce Juice of 1/2 lime or […]

Kicking goals with God

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

Violence, drug and alcohol abuse, hold-ups, murders, lack of education, unemployment and a loss of hope are all part of the culture for many of the young people living in the settlements in and around the city of Lae in Papua New Guinea. However, in the Hunter Settlement there are signs of hopefulness and change. […]

Showing 151 to 160 of 175 results