Malaysia Peninsula – LCA International Mission

Dedication of home for WCCC

By Daphne Abraham | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

In January 2024 the Women Care and Counselling Centre (WCCC) farewelled Deaconess Elizabeth after 14 years of service and welcomed me, Ms Daphne Abraham, into the role of supervisor. I was formerly a bank officer and have also had some exposure to the diakonia/social work through Malaysian Care. This has been helpful for me to […]

Harnessing the power and promises of prayer

By Erin Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia Peninsula, Malaysia Sabah, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand

Prayer is simply, by faith, the articulation of our heart’s response to that which begins in the heart of God. The Trinity are so intimately connected that their thoughts form the continual communion and community that is prayer. Their first recorded internal conversation and prayer (let there be light, let there be life) begins the […]

Cultivating disciples in cross-cultural mission

0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Malaysia Sabah

Do you know a young person who would love to grow in faith and engage with Christians from other countries? Perhaps you are that young person! This is your opportunity to be strengthened in faith and to be a blessing to many. From April 2024, LCA International Mission is partnering with the LCANZ’s Grow Ministries […]

Offering the extravagant love of the Sower

By Erin Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

You know that parable where the farmer sows four lots of seed? The first lot of seed falls on the path where it lies until the birds swoop down and enjoy it for themselves. What the birds don’t eat are trampled by the feet of those who were passing through the fields. The second lot […]

Kindness shared with vulnerable women in Malaysia

By Deaconess Elizabeth Gopal | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

The Women’s Care and Counselling Centre (WCCC) is a service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia (ELCM). The staff involved with WCCC reach out to women who are in vulnerable situations. Here, Deaconess Elizabeth Gopal shares the stories of four women who God gifted the WCCC the opportunity to care for. Approximately three years […]

Teaming up to live out mission goals

By Glenn Schultz | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Malaysia Peninsula

The members of St John’s Lutheran Church Unley in suburban Adelaide have supported a variety of mission ventures over the years. Some have travelled to Cambodia and India while others have engaged in building projects in Aboriginal communities. However, it was only in late 2019 that the congregation formed a mission team to oversee, encourage […]

A ministry of hope for women in Malaysia

By Erin Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

The Women’s Care and Counselling Centre (WCCC) is a service which supports young or single women with unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. It is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia, located in Port Klang (about an hour from the city centre of Kuala Lumpur). The Centre was opened in 2009 and receives pastoral […]

Serving to lead others to Christ

By Rev Aaron Yap | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula

The Lutheran Church in Malaysia (LCM) is one of the LCANZ’s overseas partner churches. Among LCM ministries supported by our Lutheran family is its mission alongside the Orang Asli, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. We asked Rev Aaron Yap, who served as Bishop of LCM from 2013 to 2021, to share his thoughts on […]

Support for scholarships changes lives

By Erin Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Scholarships

In Peninsular Malaysia, which is also known as West Malaysia, there are 18 officially recognised indigenous tribes. The ancestors of these indigenous (Orang Asli) tribes were the first people to populate the peninsula more than 4,000 years ago. Since then, most have continued a hunter-gatherer and small-scale agricultural lifestyle. Being an Orang Asli in Malaysia […]

Malaysian Bishop to study at Australian Lutheran College

0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Scholarships

Steven Lawrence was born on 29 March 1978 in Penang, Malaysia. He was an active member of the Boys’ Brigade of the 2nd Penang Company (1994-1995), where he grew in faith and Christian understanding. Rev Steven Lawrence answered the call of God for full-time ministry at the age of 22, and shortly after, pursued his […]

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