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Let not your heart be troubled

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Phin Phary watched as a stranger approached her mother and father in the hospital. The doctor had just told her parents “If your son survives the accident, he will live with permanent brain damage”. While they were trying to comprehend this devastating information, the stranger started to speak with her parents about a man named […]

Crucial developments for the Highlands Lutheran church in 1934

By Rev Greg Schiller | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

This year, 2024, marks 90 years since several crucial developments for the Lutheran church in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. In 1934, the first group of Highlanders were baptised, they were eastern Highlanders; the Lutheran Mission stations of Ega, Kerowagi, and Ogelbeng were founded; and a plane was bought to aid the spreading of […]

Letting Go and Resting in Christ

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Pastor Len and Claire Tscharke were sent to Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1954. They stayed at Asaroka Lutheran Mission, then served at Ialibu in the Southern Highlands, where they started the Ialibu Lutheran Primary School. When back in Asaroka in 1960, they established the Asaroka Lutheran Secondary School. After spending 17 years in PNG, […]

Birthing Kits Provide Life for Babies in PNG

By Joel Ronapo | 0 comment | Categories: Birthing Kits, Papua New Guinea

Lutheran Health Services is the Health Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea. Lutheran Health Services Morobe Region is the biggest region of all the three regions (including Highlands, MASE and Morobe-Secretary) under Lutheran Health Services. Morobe Region has a total of 35 health facilities, which comprises two hospitals, two health centres, […]

Empowering Women and Fostering Positive Change

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Women living in the influential patriarchal system in North Sumatra, Indonesia, are often faced with significant challenges and injustice as they seek to carry out their responsibilities in their home and serve as leaders among their workplaces and in their church communities. The Lutheran Study Centre in Indonesia, recognising the importance of empowering women in […]

View from North Sumatra

By P Hitchen | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

The bustling city of Pematangsiantar, not far from the equator in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, is a world away from Geneva, in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, where The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) headquarters is located. But it is in Pematangsiantar where Rev Dr Rospita Siahaan was born, has lived most of her life […]

‘Border Crossings’ Issue 42

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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.

An unforgettable experience

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A group of thirteen people from St Paul’s Lutheran church, Box Hill, Victoria recently visited Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra to spend time with their overseas congregational partner GKPS Jalan Jenderal Suriman. The visiting group ranged in age from 18 to 75 years; and included five young adults, congregation chair Ben Gargett, and Pastor Neville Otto. ‘I […]

Seeking first his kingdom

By Kathy Harrison and Chris Day | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Indonesia

It was only for ten days, but the blessings from the journey of thirteen of St Paul’s Lutheran, Box Hill members to visit our partner church, GKPS Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra, Indonesia have already proved to be mighty – both for the participants and for the congregation. We knew before we left […]

Blessings of consistent connection

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For a relationship to grow and develop, it is essential that there be an intentionality to spend quality time together and have moments of consistent connection. Though his time on earth was consumed with teaching, healing the sick, and performing miracles, Jesus was never too busy to constantly and purposefully make himself available to his […]

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