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Great joy as fledgling Myanmar church installs first bishop

By Linda Macqueen | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar

On 6 January 2013, Anita Synnott and Glenice Hartwich participated in a historic occasion: the installation of the first bishop of the fledgling Myanmar Lutheran Church. Rev Cr Andrew Mang Lone was installed by Rev Bishop Philip Lok of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia (LCM) during a worship service in Yangon, Myanmar. There was great […]

Stamps for Mission Project Indonesia

By Peter Nitschke | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia, Stamps for Mission

Stamps for Mission are donating $2000 to the Abdi Sabda Seminary prison ministry, Medan, Indonesia. Abdi Sabda seminary Prison Ministry team is just one of the six mission projects supported through the Stamps for Mission program in 2013. Each week the enthusiastic group of faithful students studying at Abdi Sabda seminary, go into the prisons […]

Unity in Cambodia

By Andrew Beaven | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Schools

In November 2012, eleven Year 11 students and three staff, completed a Mission trip in Cambodia. Lutheran World Mission in Singapore organised the trip for the team from Unity College and joining us was a team from Singapore, Hong Kong, other Australians, as well as locals from Cambodia to make up one Mission team.

The Lord knows the way of the righteous

By Sally Lim | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

Suicide was on the mind of 19-year-old Sreyleak. Sreyleak’s father had died when she was eight years old. Now her mother was planning to remarry, despite the children’s opposition. Sreyleak’s family were impoverished and her three siblings (the youngest being only four years of age) had decided to stay with their paternal grandmother instead of […]

An adventure into partnership

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

Navigator College is a Lutheran school in Port Lincoln, situated on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. As an emerging school within the Lutheran education network, Navigator has been working hard to develop opportunities for its students, including service learning, a key aspect of Christian education. As our school established its learning program, we were […]

Indonesian Longest Lutheran Lunch

By Kendrea Rhodes | 0 comment | Categories: Indonesia

If I said chilli, lemongrass, ginger and rice, would you think of unity? If I said coriander, garlic, chicken curry and noodle soup, would you think of reformation? If I said beef rendang, Sumatran chicken curry, mie goreng or nasi goreng, would you think of Indonesia? If I said bread and wine, the body and […]

Thank you for teaching us

By Kendrea Rhodes | 0 comment | Categories: Myanmar, Scholarships

When Rev James San Aung from the Myanmar Lutheran Church and Rev Martin Lalthangliana from the Lutheran Church of Myanmar returned to their home country of Myanmar (Burma), they were full of thankfulness to you! Through your offerings, you made it possible for James and Martin to receive a short term scholarship to study theology […]

Plugged in! – The power of connection

By Kendrea Rhodes | 0 comment | Categories: Congregations, Malaysia Peninsula

The word ‘connect’ is bandied about like cardboard coffee cups – used too frequently and then thrown away, its value rarely appreciated. For, like the underrated cardboard cup, the word ‘connect’ contains something deliciously addictive. ‘Connect is all about relationships and all the potential that lies within them. To connect is to make contact, be […]

Loved and Cared for by you!

By David and Ruth Craig | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia, Volunteers and Supporters

David and Ruth Craig are not your ordinary couple. Since retirement they have given large amounts of their time as volunteer teachers of English through the LCA Board for Mission’s volunteer program. Read what they said about their latest experience. We were privileged to go as volunteers to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for two months in […]

Hell and heaven

By Linda Macqueen | 0 comment | Categories: Cambodia

When Ek Muntha was 18 years old, she rose from the grave. For three days she had lain there among the hollow-eyed dead, stripped bare, awaiting burial, while the pit was dug. On the third day she opened her eyes, struggled to her feet and wobbled shakily from the tangled mound of corpses.

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