Indonesia – Page 10 – LCA International Mission

Conference first for Indonesian teachers

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

Lutheran school teachers in Indonesia have met for a national conference for the first time. Sponsored by LCA International Mission, the conference drew 110 teachers from the thirteen member churches of the Lutheran World Federation National Committee in Indonesia to a three-day gathering in North Sumatra’s Samosir District. The aim of the June conference was […]

Reciprocal Serving in Partnership

By Kaye Mathwin-Cox | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

It has been an absolute pleasure to be part of an experience that has opened the many opportunities a service learning partnership gives. Building a partnership school relationship between SMA GKPS school in Pematang Raya, North Sumatra, Indonesia, and our year 11 students has given our whole college a strong focus on servanthood, as well […]

Links with Siassi Islands

By Nancy Wells | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

St John’s Lutheran School (recently amalgamated to become Concordia College) enjoys a partnership with a group of schools on the Siassi Islands of Papua New Guinea. Over the past five years, the partnership has grown and strengthened, with a particular focus upon supporting teachers in the development of English language skills for themselves and their […]

Church is not a building but the people of God

By Anna Reichenbach and Matt Higgins | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

During October and November 2015, Matt and I volunteered to teach English in Indonesia. I studied Indonesian at university and was teaching it at Living Waters Lutheran Primary School, Alice Springs. While still at university, I had a desire to use my language skills abroad. I therefore had spoken with Glenice Hartwich about mission opportunities […]

12,000 voices praising God!

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

The competition was intense and the songs of praise articulated with joy and precision as 28 groups vied for the title of the best women’s choir of the Huria Batak Protestan church (HKBP) in Indonesia on Saturday, 28 November. Women in a kaleidoscope of coloured kebayas (traditional Indonesia formal women’s dress), brightly painted lips and […]

Lifestyles of reconciliation

By James Kerber | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

James Kerber is four years into a five-year double degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Passionate about youth ministry, James joined his father, Rev Paul Kerber, for a week in North Sumatra, Indonesia, teaching on lifestyles of reconciliation with people from our Lutheran overseas partner churches. Pastor Kerber is the LCA Assistant to the Bishop, […]

Blessings of Lessons with Singing Angels

By Marilyn Morgan | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Volunteers and Supporters

After volunteering at the largest Lutheran seminary in Indonesia in 2014, Marilyn (Mal) and John Morgan returned in July and August this year to serve as volunteer English teachers at the Bible Frau School at Laguboti, North Sumatra. It seemed as though we had been driving for hours through the forests and in the mountains […]

From the Sunshine Coast to Cambodia: a very special partnership

By Karen Schultz | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

This year we have had the pleasure of both receiving visitors from and having staff, students and a parent travel to Cambodia. We were honoured to have two Lutheran pastors from Cambodia, Daniel Orn and Vannarith Chhim visit Pacific Lutheran College in August, as part of a trip sponsored by LCA International Mission. We first […]

Lutheran Women help to build foundations

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Scholarships

Building foundations might not necessarily be an activity on the calendar of the women’s fellowship meeting. And they may not easily make the connections to building relationships in Myanmar, Indonesia or Papua New Guinea each time they give, make, bake or buy something at the trading table at their Lutheran Women of Australia (LWA) meeting. […]

Core principals

By Neville Highett | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Schools

The LCA has identified the need to work with partner churches to develop capacity of individuals within each country of operation. The partnerships, which are formally documented, are based on needs identified by local people but within the scope of the LCA’s capacity to assist. The National Committee of Lutheran World Federation in Indonesia is the […]

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