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Learning and interacting online

By Ev Leske, Janine Guy, Barbara Williams | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

Twenty volunteers living in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria joined together from five Christian denominations to serve the STT Abdi Sabda Seminary conversational English program overseas in 2023. Each weekday for four weeks, these servants demonstrated the love of Jesus to the young people who are beginning their theological studies to become […]

Practically assisting PNG teachers

By Anne Maczkowiack | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

Many Australian Lutherans know of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea – perhaps from past missionaries to the country or from media updates. Perhaps not so well known is the existence of an extensive Lutheran School system across the country. When we think of the words “Lutheran School”, our minds may go to […]

A Gift of Love

By Ian Kluge | 0 comment | Categories: Birthing Kits, Papua New Guinea

After almost 20 years of preparing birthing kits for women in rural areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Joan Kluge and her sewing machine are retiring. This article is a tribute to the wonderful contribution which Joan has made over the years, to the church and to our sisters in Christ in PNG. Joan became […]

Stepping out of comfort zone to share Lutheran teaching

By Rev Fraser Pearce | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

In December 2022, I had an opportunity to do some teaching in Jakarta, Indonesia with groups of Lutheran young people and pastors. I had previously taught Lutheran pastors from South-East Asia online, but this was my first experience teaching face to face in Indonesia, and through an interpreter. The Lutheran church in Indonesia is very […]

Connected in sharing worship and life

By Josephine Matthias | 0 comment | Categories: Volunteers and Supporters

Being a follower of Jesus is an invitation to a life of joy, peace and hope, but it can also be a journey filled with persecution and temptations to believe you are alone. So, when I was asked to join the organising team for the Mission EineWelt-run online Global Worship in 2020, I leapt at […]

Growing in Lutheran identity

By Rev Dr Andrew Pfeiffer | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah, Volunteers and Supporters

In August 2022 I received an invitation from Dr Wilfred John, director of the Lutheran Study Centre – Sabah, Malaysia, to teach at a conference with the theme, Lutheran Distinctives on Church, Ministry and Mission. Dr Wilfred is a former student at Australian Lutheran College (ALC) and a long-time friend of the LCA. The visit […]

Agape in name, nature and action

By Yap Pak Shun | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Sabah, Stamps for Mission

The Greek word agape describes a love that is pure, unselfish and unconditional. With the aspiration of reflecting this sacrificial love, the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia’s (BCCM) day care centre for children living with a disability bears this word in its name. Ms Yap Pak Shun, a member of the BCCM Central Education Board, […]

God’s PERFECT plan!

By Tracy Smith | 0 comment | Categories: Birthing Kits, Papua New Guinea

Due to COVID-19 and its various restrictions, the usual distribution of birthing kits to the Highlands, Momase, and Morobe regions by ELC-PNG Lutheran Health Services (LHS) has been halted over the past two years. Upon the eventual arrival of our personal belongings to Logaweng (via Port Moresby and Lae) the number of packing boxes landing […]

Smiles again at Home of Praise

By Anne Storstein Haug | 0 comment | Categories: Volunteers and Supporters

After such a long time living life in isolation in Thailand, we are pleased that many people have now been, or are planning to get vaccinated and that the number of COVID-19 infected people is decreasing. The evening curfew which lasted for many months, now no longer applies. The schools have started to reopen, we […]

God does the impossible

By Debbie Borgas | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

My husband Michael and I were very surprised to read an email from Abdi Sabda Seminary in Indonesia, requesting that ‘Michael and Debbie Borgas help us with our English Program online’. We had no idea how our names were chosen, aside from the fact that prior to COVID-19, we had been in some discussion to […]

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