Mission Workers – Page 8 – LCA International Mission

Stories » ()

Long-term gospel partnership

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

Pastor Greg Schiller has returned to Australia after more than a 30-year partnership in the gospel with our partner church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELCPNG). Greg began his ministry in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1984 as a vicar on Siassi Island and at Memorial Lutheran Church, Madang. After completing his […]

PNG gives thanks for Greg Schiller

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

It was indeed a thanks giving service. The seminary community with some partners from the surrounding Community’s and guests celebrated God’s goodness and faithfulness upon a life committed to the proclamation of the gospel message of our Lord Jesus Christ and the strengthening of Christian faith and the development of the Lutheran church in PNG. […]

Dedication to his Lord’s missionary call

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

Martin Samuel Helbig, son of Pastor and Mrs. Paul Helbig, was born on March 25, 1911, at Finschhafen. Being born into a missionary family and spending his childhood and early youth on the mission field, he entered into a lifelong commitment to the Church’s Mission in New Guinea. He was educated at Immanuel College and […]

Faith and hope built hospital in Highlands

By Dr Eric Hoopmann | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

I was born on 18 June 1924 at Yorketown in South Australia into a family with a long background history of involvement with the church and mission work. My maternal great-grandfather was a missionary amongst the Tamil people of India before coming to Australia. My paternal grandfather was sent out to Australia from Germany by […]

LCA Mission Leader Installed

By Lisa McIntosh | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers

Mrs Glenice Hartwich was installed in the Lutheran Church’s senior international mission role on 7 February by LCA Bishop John Henderson at St John’s Unley, South Australia. She is the first lay person and the first woman to be appointed to the LCA’s top international mission post. In the role, known as Assistant to the […]

Ties to ‘silver years’ hold strong

By Rosie Schefe | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Memories and connections to warm, distant places drew almost 90 people to the fourth annual Fritzsche Oration, held at Australian Lutheran College in Adelaide on a wet and cold August evening. In his welcoming remarks, Principal James Winderlich asked audience members to indicate how many had served in Papua New Guinea, and how many had […]

A fruitful beginning

By Rosie Schefe | 0 comment | Categories: Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

Seven years after his first visit, Michael (also known as Mick) Hauser will soon return to the coastal city of Lae, in Papua New Guinea. His return will complete one cycle of learning for Michael, just as a new one begins. In 2008 Michael was a participant in a study tour to Papua New Guinea. […]

Western Asia is calling

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

A beautiful but complex part of the world, western Asia is facing many challenges due to nearby conflict. Although this is a place where the good news first flourished, today fewer than 0.3 per cent of the people are followers of Jesus. The vast majority of the population follow Islam and this shapes their daily […]

Heart sounds

By Rosie Schefe | 0 comment | Categories: Bible Translation, Mission Workers, Papua New Guinea

In Papua New Guinea a self-confessed ‘nerd in hiking boots’ wends her way along steep and narrow mountain tracks, putting to work her trust in God every time she steps onto a bridge. As a linguist and translation worker, Hanna Schulz is carrying on a vision of cross-cultural mission which has been part of the […]

Discerning choices in Papua New Guinea

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

Which fruit to buy at the local market will be a minor choice compared to the major decision that Hanna Schulz has to make in these next months. As a member of Lutheran Bible Translators Australia (LBTA) Hanna is currently living and working in Ukarumpa, the headquarters of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), Papua […]

Showing 71 to 80 of 103 results