Volunteers and Supporters – Page 9 – LCA International Mission

God’s wonders celebrated at Luther Seminary in Thailand

By Dr Greg Lockwood | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

It was a fourfold celebration that Friday afternoon in the lovely chapel at Luther Seminary Thailand in Bangkok: First and foremost, as this was 24 March, the eve of the Annunciation festival, we celebrated the Archangel Gabriel’s announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would bear the Christchild. ‘For with God nothing will be impossible.’ […]

Blessed by culture change

By Hanna Schmidt | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

Through LCA International Mission Volunteers in Mission program I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Thailand to experience the way people are serving others in Bangkok. Last December I volunteered at Home of Grace, which supports unmarried pregnant women, mothers and babies. I felt a childlike sense of wonder learning about Thai culture. One […]

Free to serve others

By Brittany Whitfield | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand, Volunteers and Supporters

Unsure of what you want to do after high school? Do you want to strengthen your relationship with God? Travel overseas? During my final year of high school, I had no idea what I wanted to do for further study; most young people would know the feeling. I contemplated going straight to university, however it’s […]

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 […]

Servant heart inspires caring community

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Volunteers and Supporters

After years of resistance and within hours of death, Karthik’s dad was lead to say, 'I am a Christian'. Hearts soften and lives change in more ways than we plan when Jesus is trusted and allowed to shine brightly.

Dear Lord, I really need your help

By Barbara Smith | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Volunteers and Supporters

What do you do when 40 pairs of large, bright brown eyes are looking at you at 4.30pm, each holding their bag with an exercise book and pencil, and waiting expectantly? Oh no! I’ve only set the classroom for 25 children aged between five and eight years old and there are 40! I won’t have […]

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 […]

Holy Spirit burns in young hearts

By Greg Bensted | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Volunteers and Supporters

Recently my wife Kathy, along with our daughter Emily, was invited by LCA International Mission to teach at the women’s ministry conference in Myanmar. I also had the blessing of visiting this beautiful country with my son Adam and friend Karl Rau. While the women were at the conference, we were invited by Pastor James […]

Back to PNG – ‘life-shaping’

By James Winderlich | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

It was 50 years since I last walked on Papua New Guinea’s rich, life filled soil. I was born there, the child of mission parents almost 53 years previously. My parents were sent by our Church to establish new schools in remote communities. After returning to Australia my sisters and I grew up on PNG stories. Those stories […]

News so good they have to share

By Warren and Marianne Schirmer | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Volunteers and Supporters

It was a moving moment to step out of the bus and see for the first time the new church built in the Kampong Cham Province in Cambodia, primarily from funds provided by LCA congregations in Epping and Newcastle NSW and Woden ACT. Just 12 months earlier we stood under a tree on the same […]

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