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May 09 2019
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Partnership in Christ

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

A partner is a pair of people engaged in the same activity. ‘Partnership’ is, therefore, the perfect descriptor for what the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Myanmar and Ipswich Lutheran Church have established, as together we are engaging in the same activity: knowing Christ and making Christ known. Our partnership is entering its third year and […]

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Mar 22 2019
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Blessed outside my comfort zone

By Wendy Woods | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Volunteers and Supporters

There are a few things I struggle with, including change, new people and new places. So when I felt called to apply for the Grow Leadership program, which would include spending time in a country I had never visited with people I had never met, I wasn’t sure how I would cope. Thankfully God’s plans […]

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Mar 04 2019
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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 […]

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Jan 25 2019
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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 […]

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Dec 10 2018
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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 […]

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Feb 02 2018
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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 […]

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Oct 22 2017
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Myanmar Lutheran churches host Reformation celebrations

By Rev James San Aung | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar

The Federation of Lutheran Churches in Myanmar (FLCM) member churches hosted a special worship service, symposium and common meal to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in the country. The FLCM was established in 2013 with a goal to foster closer relations between the Lutheran churches in their witness, diaconal action, theological study and training of […]

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Jun 10 2017
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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 […]

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