Indonesia – Page 12 – LCA International Mission

Indonesian guests strengthen inter-church partnerships

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

‘It is good to be here, celebrating your 175th anniversary’, Bishop Willem Simarmata told delegates early on the first day of Convention. ‘God still takes care of the Lutheran Church of Australia, God loves the LCA, and the LCA will be a blessing to Australia and to all the world’, he said. Bishop Simarmata is […]

Stamps for Mission Project Indonesia

By Peter Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Stamps for Mission

Stamps for Mission are donating $2000 to the Abdi Sabda Seminary prison ministry, Medan, Indonesia. Abdi Sabda seminary Prison Ministry team is just one of the six mission projects supported through the Stamps for Mission program in 2013. Each week the enthusiastic group of faithful students studying at Abdi Sabda seminary, go into the prisons […]

An adventure into partnership

By Kaye Mathwin-Cox | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

Navigator College is a Lutheran school in Port Lincoln, situated on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. As an emerging school within the Lutheran education network, Navigator has been working hard to develop opportunities for its students, including service learning, a key aspect of Christian education. As our school established its learning program, we were […]

Indonesian Longest Lutheran Lunch

By Kendrea Rhodes | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

If I said chilli, lemongrass, ginger and rice, would you think of unity? If I said coriander, garlic, chicken curry and noodle soup, would you think of reformation? If I said beef rendang, Sumatran chicken curry, mie goreng or nasi goreng, would you think of Indonesia? If I said bread and wine, the body and […]

Forgiven to Forgive

By Kendrea Rhodes | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

When Marlene Pluckenhahn was a little girl, she wanted to be a missionary in Africa.

A family in Christ

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

Death of a parent, breakdown of marriage, the experience of being abandon, poverty…these are some of the harsh realities of life in our world. For vulnerable children, these experiences can mean isolation, homelessness, a deeper experience of poverty, a loss of identity and dignity, and loss of their family or a place to call home. […]

More than just study

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Scholarships

‘Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing’ – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV) Visit the Lutheran Churches in Singapore, Malaysia (the mainland Peninsula and Sabah), Thailand, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea and you will see the encouraging influences of the LCA scholarship program. Scholarship recipients are nominated by […]

Stamps for Mission Projects in 2012

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia Sabah, Papua New Guinea, Stamps for Mission, Thailand

Thank you to all those involved in collecting, cleaning and sorting stamps. In 2011, an amazing $7,679.39 was raised and an additional $3,094.09 was deposited in January 2012. These funds will be put to good use supporting these mission projects: Support for the 6 Lua evangelists working with Rev Simon Mackenzie in Nan Province of […]

Smiles at Hephata

By Pauline Simonsen | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Indonesia

“Hello! Hello!” The smiling man with the missing teeth called cheerily to us every morning – and every time we walked past his sitting place. His warm call and happy grin were guaranteed to make us smile back. But that was normal at Hephata – we were always met with smiling faces and cheerful greetings […]

my children, your children

By Rosemary Winderlich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

To reach Debora Orphanage in North Sumatra, we travel ten hours along the bumpy road from Medan. When we’re almost there, there’s a deep ravine. Down we go, and labour up the other side, perhaps with the help of a winch if the day is wet. Then we turn down a little track, bump through […]

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