Mission Workers – LCA International Mission

New way for mission-focused pastor to serve

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

Pastor Mark Schultz has accepted a call from the LCANZ to serve as the church’s Assistant to the Bishop – International Mission from next year. Despite serving for 18 years at Sydney’s LifeWay Lutheran Church, Pastor Mark wasn’t looking for a change. He often told people ‘God would need a sledgehammer’ to move him from […]

Crucial developments for the Highlands Lutheran church in 1934

By Rev Greg Schiller | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

This year, 2024, marks 90 years since several crucial developments for the Lutheran church in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. In 1934, the first group of Highlanders were baptised, they were eastern Highlanders; the Lutheran Mission stations of Ega, Kerowagi, and Ogelbeng were founded; and a plane was bought to aid the spreading of […]

PNG Missionary Fellowship Service celebrates 50 years

By Helen McNichol | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Missionary Fellowship was joined on Sunday, March 10 by a number of residents from Tanunda Lutheran Home (TLH), in whose chapel this 50-year reunion took place. A service in the chapel was well attended, and this was followed by a luncheon, then a number of speakers took the stand to […]

Inspiring time of fellowship

By Mary Jo Zwar | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Gramps Chapel at Tanunda Lutheran Home was the venue for the 2024 reunion of the Papua New Guinea Missionary Fellowship. On Sunday, 10 March, 85 members of the fellowship joined the congregation for a worship service that incorporated elements reminiscent of the mission experience, including the Lord’s prayer spoken in New Guinea pidgin. Former missionary […]

Preparing for PNG

0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea, Volunteers and Supporters

In July 2023 Andrew, Meredith, Bea and Hans Ronnevik started a new call to serve in Papua New Guinea (PNG) through the Global Mission unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). They have committed to a four-year term, from summer 2023 to summer 2027 with a two-month home leave every two years (always […]

God uses me for his kingdom – even from afar

By Audrey* | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Translation, Mission Workers

Four years ago, I moved to Asia, started language learning and set up my life there, full of anticipation. But just two months later I was on a plane back to Australia far from my fellow team members, unable to continue language learning and with not much to do. After months turned into years of […]

Sober Spirituality

By Pastor Mick Hauser | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

While the spiritual world of angels and demons may not be a regular topic of conversation among many Australians and New Zealanders, in other cultural contexts around the world, including that of Papua New Guinea, spiritual activity impacting human existence may be seen as part of everyday life. Lutheran pastor and seminary lecturer Mick Hauser, […]

Leading in gospel integrity

By Pastor Murray Smith | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Following a much drier rainy season last year and experiencing drought in Finschhafen, in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Province, we are now in the middle of a very normal wet season. The dry meant that vital food production from student gardens has been delayed from March until an expected start in early July if the […]

Joys and challenges of a new land and language

By Rev Dr Michael Lockwood | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

Greetings from our new home in Taiwan. Our family has been in Taiwan for six months. This has been both joyful and challenging. The joys have included: Fellowship with the other mission staff and with our brothers and sisters at Salvation Lutheran Church, Chiayi The friendliness of the Taiwanese people Experiencing this beautiful island and […]

You will not fear the terror of the night

By Pastor Mick Hauser | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

‘You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday (Psalm 91:5,6).’ Oh, how my family and I have needed these words these first six months of 2023. After returning to Papua New Guinea following […]

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