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PNG missionaries reunion

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

In mid October around 80 former missionaries to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and other supporters gathered for a weekend reunion and mission celebration at Trinity Lutheran Church, Pasadena, Adelaide. Visitors came from as far afield as Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. They were joined by six guests from the Siassi Islands, members of the Evangelical […]

Researching Melanesian culture and society

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

It is now two years since I came back to Goroka to work at the Melanesian Institute (MI). I say ‘back to Goroka’ because I also spent ten years of my childhood in this town. The MI is a research and teaching institute run by four big churches in PNG: the Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, Anglican […]

How the Gospel came to Siassi

By Colin Hayter | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Australian Lutheran men and women played a major role in mission work on the islands of Siassi in New Guinea. This year 2011 is the 75th anniversary of the Australian Lutheran Mission, which was set up by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) in 1936 to send missionaries to the Sepik River area in […]

Missionary caught in Thai floods

By LCA Communications | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Thailand

We are calling for urgent prayer support for the LCA’s missionary serving in northern Thailand. Pastor Simon Mackenzie and his wife Oiy lost many of their possessions in a flash flood that devastated the area in which they are serving. Pastor Mackenzie, Oiy and their two-year-old son Aussie are safe in a hotel, after having […]

Where to from here?

By Glenice Hartwich | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Translation, Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Hanna Schulz is a woman with vision, energy and calling – a calling to serve as a Bible translator. This year Hanna has relocated from Adelaide to Kangaroo Ground, Melbourne following the completion of her theological studies at Australian Lutheran College in 2010. At the Wycliffe/Summer Institute of Linguistics headquarters in Melbourne, Hanna is immersing […]

The more I know … the less I know.

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

The joy and challenges of being an Australian Lutheran in Papua New Guinea. Of the 25 years he has been a Lutheran Church of Australia pastor, Greg Schiller has spent 22 of them in Papua New Guinea, in a diverse range of settings and circumstances. The lessons and insights gained over these years prepare him […]

Sails, Symbols, Synonyms

By Amber Venner | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Translation, Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

It’s a clear, warm day as Hanna Schulz and I walk towards the coffee shop. ‘Perfect sailing weather’, Hanna says exuberantly. ‘I’m an ocean person.’ Perhaps it is natural, then, that Hanna is a mate on the One and All, a vessel that offers five-to-seven-day sailing experiences for young people, often from troubled backgrounds. ‘I […]

On a wing and a prayer

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

Bags of coffee, rice, biscuits, shovels, machetes, mail, a coffin containing a body, together with people going to and from geographically isolated villages in the remote regions of the highlands of Papua New Guinea – all these can be part of the precious cargo transported, on any given day, by a Twin Otter plane in […]

Faith in action

By Rev Neville Otto | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

“Wokabaut wantaim bilong ol bilip manmeri insait long pasin bilong laikim” was the theme of the 27th Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (held between January 10 and 15, 2010). My understanding of Pidgin is limited but it didn’t take long to work out the aforementioned theme once I knew it […]

Going back to Goroka

By Nick Schwarz | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Having spent his childhood in Papua New Guinea as the son of a missionary, Nick Schwarz has been called to return and serve in the footsteps of his father.

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