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‘Imagine an endlessly renewable source of pure life, eternal life even. Life that resides not in a deep well somewhere, but in the depths of your own being.”
Congregation members from St Andrews Lutheran Church in Glynde performed in a Passion Play just before Easter to an appreciative audience at Glynde Lutheran Homes. The play was also relayed digitally into the residential care home on site.
Grief can make God hard to see. Easter’s comfort is that in the lonely, helpless, lifeless, brutalised figure of Jesus dying on Good Friday, God meets us in the ‘basement’ of life.
From door-to-door there are just 50 steps separating Langmeil Thanksgiving Church and Faith Lutheran College Junior Campus in Tanunda. So when contemplating a name for the church’s outreach initiative to reconnect with the school community, 50 Steps seemed the perfect choice.
A trio of robots is saving staff at Tanunda Lutheran Home (TLH) from walking thousands of kilometres, and giving them back important face-to-face time with residents.
Pastor Mark Kleemann didn’t expect God to call him into a military role at the age of fifty, but saying ‘yes’ led him to experience the adventures of a lifetime and the grace of God in a whole new way.
Bug hunting, wood cutting, mud play and den building may not sound like typical school activities, but for the lucky students at Lobethal Lutheran Primary School it’s all in a day’s work.
This Christmas we may be back in our churches, but it is not quite the same as it was. I pray that at Christmas, Christ will come to his church and his whole world, weary and dislocated and threatened and unsure of the pathway forward, and his presence will comfort and strengthen us.
Even though Work Health and Safety is an important issue in our churches and should always be in our thoughts, this month we would like to ask you to put this aside and focus on the gift that we celebrate at Christmas.
A big thank you from the Professional Standards team for your time and commitment to implementing Safe Church processes in your congregations and parishes this year.