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‘Our exile is an act of God’

By Rev Matt Anker | 1 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

Many of us would have heard stories about people being stranded far from home, due to global government-imposed lockdowns to limit the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. The media has shared pictures of distraught Aussies stuck in South America and tales of those who are desperate to return to loved ones and familiar surroundings. However, […]

Pastor, Missionary, Teacher – A Tribute to John Strelan

By Dean Zweck, based on the obituary prepared by John Strelan jr | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Many readers of Border Crossings would know that one of our former missionaries, Dr John Strelan, died recently. ‘Joe’, as he was usually known, was born in 1936, the third of ten children born to Peter and Erica Strelan, nee Appelt. As a young fellow he studied at Concordia College and Seminary, graduating in 1959. […]

The power of the gospel: from condemnation to liberation

By Lim Seng Hua (Andrew) | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

My name is Andrew and I come from Malaysia. I grew up in a rural village, of Chinese Malaysian parents. I was raised in Chinese Buddhist/Taoist culture but after a long personal journey, I became a Christian. This is a little of my story. I grew up in the early 1960’s in a rural village […]

How God Rekindled Me

By Grace Poong | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah

I was born and raised in a Christian family and I attended church regularly year after year, just like other ‘typical’ Christians. Yet somehow, deep inside I did not feel any sense of belonging and connection to the church community. I had never shown any interest towards any church community/events/cell groups nor any sort of […]

Teaming up for deeper understanding

By Graham Harms | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Mission Workers, Volunteers and Supporters

It is common knowledge that Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any country in the world. What is less well known is that Indonesia also has the fourth largest Lutheran population of any country in the world. There are 13 Lutheran synods in Indonesia concentrated mostly in North Sumatra, and a total of more […]

God had other plans

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Papua New Guinea

‘We are witnesses of God’s great work being done through you to us here at the Heldsbach Kindergarten Schools Project.’ – Project Coordinator Taningnao. Heldsbach, near Finschhafen on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Huon Peninsula east of Lae, is a special place for people of the St Paul’s Hahndorf/Redeemer Nairne Lutheran parish in the Adelaide Hills. […]

Apr 01 2020

Our future is assured in him

By Rev Matt Anker | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Studies

I don’t remember a time in the church when we weren’t talking about the doom and gloom of the future. Shrinking congregations. Tighter finances. Scandals impacting the place of the church in society. The latest ‘discoveries’ regarding sexuality pushing the church to the margins. And the apparent supremacy of science and human reason over the […]

‘Border Crossings’ Issue 30

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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.

Support needed for discipleship resource

By Wolfgang Grieninger | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Malaysia Sabah

Seasons is a Lutheran discipleship resource published in English by the Lutheran Church in Malaysia (LCM) in 2017 as a contribution to the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. A year later, a Chinese translation followed. Both versions have been well received by members and congregations of the four Lutheran church bodies in […]

Looking for love

By Rodney Ling | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah

“So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him (Luke 15:20). When I was still a teenager, around 14 or 15 years […]

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