Cambodia – Page 5 – LCA International Mission

Great work God is doing globally

By Elsa Matthias | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Volunteers and Supporters

In 2015 the Board for Mission (now known as LCA International Mission) sought to find a significant way of recognising the celebration of 50 years of union / formation of the LCA (2016) and the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation (2017). The general brief was to have a focus on inter-cultural youth leadership development, […]

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 […]

Hope is where our heart is

By Jacob and Kate Traeger | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Congregations

Pastor Mark Schultz from LifeWay Lutheran Church, Epping and Newcastle, in Sydney’s north-west, recently led a team of volunteers to the Lutheran Church of Cambodia’s new outreach point in Tang Krang village, Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. The team was comprised of people from LifeWay and Immanuel Lutheran Church, Woden ACT. The two congregations funded building […]

Gateway to hope

By Karina McKenzie | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Congregations

From darkness to light

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Sreyleak was eight years old when her father died and her mother left the family in the village of Phum Krus in Cambodia. As the oldest of 4 children, Sreyleak was responsible for feeding and educating her siblings and caring for her grandmother, Who Met. Life was so tough for her, with no work for […]

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 […]

The missional drip

By Pastor Mark Schultz | 2 comments | Categories: Cambodia, Congregations

Drip…drip…drip! It has to be one of life’s most annoying sounds when you are trying to sleep. You try to ignore it, but no amount of pillow hugging, thinking about something else or covering your ears can take away that persistent sound. Drip. Drip. Drip! The dripping only stops when you get out of bed […]

God’s Spirit dancing in her life

By Nevin Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

In our Australian society those who believe in Jesus are facing more open opposition and questions about why they believe. What encourages you to believe God’s promises, embrace His hope and live in His love? Most Christians around the world face similar challenges and questions. What difference does a belief and trust in Jesus make? […]

Long-life, life-giving fruit

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Congregations

The sale of thousands of bags of deliciously sweet dried apricots from Barmera in South Australia’s Riverland has eternal benefits. The apricots are grown, dried and prepared by Lou Moss and fellow parishioners in the Barmera-New Residence parish, together with local community members. The proceeds from the sale of each 500 gram packet reaches across […]

Word and water with power and purpose

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Immense hardship and deep sorrow have filled much of Kert Voun’s 64 years of life. Married in 1975, her husband and two of her infant sons died during those murderous years of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Her second husband, whom she married in 1979, died just one year later, leaving her to care […]

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