International Partners – LCA International Mission

Seeing God’s fingerprints everywhere

By Anita Synnott | 0 comment | Categories: Malaysia Peninsula, Schools

Through LCA International Mission, over the past eight years the community of Good Shepherd Lutheran College at Howard Springs in the Northern Territory has formed a strong partnership with Bethany Home in Malaysia. As part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia, Bethany is a training centre for young people with disabilities. As well as […]

Knowing Jesus drives out fear

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Thailand

In the cool morning air in northern Thailand, a young woman looks around at green rice fields across a flowing stream, all still partly in the shadow of the forested mountains. The lush vegetation that seems intent on blanketing her Lua community village is filled with the sounds of life. Even at this height, it […]

Excited to be following God’s call

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Serving as a missionary overseas is something Pastor Murray Smith never thought he would do. But then God’s call on our lives can often surprise. Because that’s exactly what Pastor Murray and his wife Tracy are preparing for, after his call to serve as a lecturer at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea’s […]

Blessed to follow God’s lead

By Helen Beringen | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

Be careful of barbecue conversations, because you never know where they might lead! Especially if you are newly retired and have an open mind about where God might be leading you. This was certainly true for retired Openbook Publishers (formerly Lutheran Publishing House) General Manager Warren Schirmer, 73, and his wife Marianne, 69, when they […]

No longer broken

By Pastor Paul Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Japan

‘I’m no longer broken!’ These words, spoken two years ago by a pastor who is a leader in an LCA partner church of 300,000 people in Indonesia, continue to touch my heart and remind me of the power of the gospel. As I began a four-hour seminar with leaders of that church, along with their […]

From darkness into Christ’s light

By Bishop Esra Sinaga (GKLI) and Pastor Matt Anker | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

Living in the physical darkness of the Indonesian rainforest and the spiritual darkness of the religion of their ancestors, the Suku Anak Dalam are a nomadic people from Sumatra who survive by hunting, foraging and trading. Otherwise known as the Sanak people, their name roughly translates as ‘people of the forest’. With no access to […]

Across mountains and over rough seas: spreading the gospel in PNG

By Pastor Giesa Panpan | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

12 July 2021, marked 135 years since the gospel of Jesus Christ first landed on the Papua New Guinea (PNG) mainland, introduced by Pastor Johannes Flierl at Simbang Finschhafen, Morobe Province, on 12 July 1886. The written and oral histories of how the gospel spread are beyond imagination: crossing high mountains, fast flowing rivers and […]

Small churches, big visions for Mission

By Pastor Matt Anker | 0 comment | Categories: Scholarships, Singapore

The Lutheran Church in Singapore (LCS) is a small church, with six congregations and a couple of thousand members. They do not break records when it comes to numbers. But God never worries about such things! Despite their size, LCS has enormous vision and commitment to mission, dedicating time and resources to outreach mission work […]

Lu Guan Hoe succeeds Terry Kee as 3rd Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Singapore

By Janice Tai | 0 comment | Categories: Singapore

“I hope you do not … compare yourself with me because you are not me. You have gifts that I don’t have. But God can use each one of us according to what he has given us and for what we lack, God can impart it to us along the way.” Outgoing Bishop of the […]

Learning together in mission

By Rev Dr Dan Mueller | 0 comment | Categories: Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

Most Friday mornings I hear a wonderful sound: the Skype ringtone. It announces that Pastor Hans Giegere is calling me for our weekly supervised reading session. From my office in Walla Walla, situated in the rural farming district of the Riverina New South Wales, I hear how Hans is going and we discuss an article […]

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