Myanmar – Page 3 – LCA International Mission

Testimonies to God’s love and grace

By Grow Leadership participants | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Volunteers and Supporters

Imagine being young and having the opportunity to see your church’s ministry and mission in action first-hand, enabling you to gain an understanding of the gospel partnerships our church has and to experience ministry in an Asian culture. For the second time, young Australian and Asian Lutherans get to do just that. Over the course […]

May They Be One …

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

Visiting Myanmar for the first time – a country only recently opened to the west – was an exciting and slightly daunting prospect for me. I was invited to be a guest presenter at the Biblical Lutheran Women Conference in Yangon in November 2018, hosted by the Federation of the Lutheran Churches in Myanmar and […]

Peace, Hope and a Future

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Scholarships

To meet James is to meet a whirlwind for Jesus! Confident, enthusiastic and wit the deep warmth of hospitality, James is alive with God’s Spirit and is a pastor in the Myanmar Lutheran Church (MLC). James grew up in a village of 50 houses. Three of James’s siblings died from disease. During this time, a village […]

How your partnership is making a difference in Myanmar

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Courses on Lutheran Distinctions organised and sponsored by the Mekong Mission Forum (MMF) in Myanmar are having a profound impact on participants. One woman says: ‘In general, we have many Bible studies but we hardly hear about Lutheran teaching. The Lutheran perspective is so enriching for us because often we ask, “Why do we do […]

Making Christ Known

By Pastor Ben Hentschke | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Myanmar

Not everyone is comfortable with sharing their faith. And the same could have been said for eight people from Ipswich Lutheran Church in Queensland, who travelled to Myanmar as part of their partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Myanmar (ELCM). Apart from the obvious language barrier – people from Myanmar speak Burmese, among other […]

Humble Appeal for Emergency Rice Distribution for Refugees in Paletwa

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Recently, we received the following email from the Mission Director of the Myanmar Lutheran Church (MLC): ‘Thanks for your prayers and love for the people in Paletwa. Indeed, it is the most difficult time for our people there due to the massive fighting constantly. Sad news again the recently two people were killed by land […]

Teaming up to make Christ known

By Pastor Ben Hentschke | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Myanmar

The mission statement of Ipswich Lutheran church is ‘To Know Christ and to Make Christ Known’. To fulfil this mission, we embarked on a journey with LCA International Mission to find a partner church in a South-East Asian country. We felt a clear call from God to support the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Myanmar (ELCM […]

All the things we need – God has provided – when the time is right

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar

For Maria, the first person in her village to believe in Jesus, faith is tangible. Faith is a part of her everyday life and part of the social challenge of living in Myanmar, while miracles are the way of seeing God’s love in the life of her family. In 2012, as part of her parents’ […]

From Slippery Slopes to a Firm Foundation

By Pastor Cecil and Jane Schmalkuche | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Volunteers and Supporters

How did we find ourselves being ushered through the Diplomat’s queueless desk at Yangon airport, to being met by a throng of excited smiling people with bunches of flowers and becoming the centre point for many photos? How was it that we were honoured like royalty? This was the love, respect and hospitality of the […]

Passing on the faith

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

Passing on the faith from mother to daughter took on new meaning for Kathy Bensted and her daughter Emily, when Kathy served as speaker for the Women’s Ministry Conference in Yangon, Myanmar, in October. Women from the four Lutheran churches in Myanmar gathered to be encouraged in their faith and to learn from the life […]

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