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Feb 17 2016
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Faith and hope built hospital in Highlands

By Dr Eric Hoopmann | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

I was born on 18 June 1924 at Yorketown in South Australia into a family with a long background history of involvement with the church and mission work. My maternal great-grandfather was a missionary amongst the Tamil people of India before coming to Australia. My paternal grandfather was sent out to Australia from Germany by […]

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Feb 07 2016
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LCA Mission Leader Installed

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

Mrs Glenice Hartwich was installed in the Lutheran Church’s senior international mission role on 7 February by LCA Bishop John Henderson at St John’s Unley, South Australia. She is the first lay person and the first woman to be appointed to the LCA’s top international mission post. In the role, known as Assistant to the […]

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Dec 06 2015
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Word and water with power and purpose

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Immense hardship and deep sorrow have filled much of Kert Voun’s 64 years of life. Married in 1975, her husband and two of her infant sons died during those murderous years of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Her second husband, whom she married in 1979, died just one year later, leaving her to care […]

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Nov 20 2015
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LWF Asia-Pacific Lutheran Identity and Self-Understanding Conference

By Pauline Simonsen | 0 comment | Categories: Volunteers and Supporters

“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! … For there the Lord bestows his blessing, life forevermore.” Psalm 133 The fourth conference on Lutheran Identity and Self-Understanding for the LWF’s Asia-Pacific region was held in Manila from 16-20 November, coinciding with the APEC conference in the same city. Despite […]

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Oct 09 2015
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Life-transforming partnerships

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Sitting on the hard wooden bed inside her home, Who Met reflects on the most recent years of her life lived in rural Cambodia. Words that describe the atrocities and deep hurt experienced during the Pol Pot regime remain unuttered. At seventy years of age Who Met, like other women her age should be sitting […]

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Oct 03 2015
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Filled with joy

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

The joy on Ung Ein’s face is evident as she sits on the bench with her friends from the village of Krus, Cambodia waiting for the bible study to begin following her midday time meal. Ung Ein first started coming to the Life Centre following her retirement in 2011 as a primary school teacher. Since […]

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Aug 21 2015
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Stand on my feet

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

Sarala’s smile welcomes me into a conversation as she wheels herself towards me. We’re in Bethany Home, Teluk Intan, Malaysia. Bethany Home is not so much a home but a place of learning and care for children and young adults with multiple physical and learning challenges. Next year Bethany will celebrate 50 years of operation […]

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Jul 25 2015
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A Welcome at the Door

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

Prabhu sits proudly in his wheelchair at the doorway of the Green Bamboo café at Bethany Home in Malaysia. He welcomes us with a warm smile as we move in and sit down to enjoy the fresh coffee and waffles we’d smelt when we stood outside talking to Lutheran pastor and director of Bethany Home, […]

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Jul 17 2015
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From ‘I can’t’ to 15 kindergartens

By Coral Gallasch | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Papua New Guinea

St Paul’s Hahndorf Congregation recently went all-out in boots, hats and denim for its Evening in the Country, raising money to support the Heldsbach Kindergarten Project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Revellers were treated to a three-course dinner and live country music. Diners were asked to get into the country theme with prizes awarded for […]

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Jan 09 2015
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Your giving provides young people with an education

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

The life of pastors and their families living and working in remote and rural areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is challenging in many respects. For many pastors, they receive no salary, but only goods in kind as their wages for the ministry amongst the people they are called to serve. Sometimes a ‘bilum’ (traditional […]

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