No images? Click here To share this eNews with your congregation, copy this link into your print or online bulletin http://lcaenews.online/221220 Some of our LCA Communications team members are taking our annual leave in January. So, LCA eNews will be taking a break also. The next edition will arrive in your inboxes on Tuesday 7 February 2023. Members of the LCANZ are continuing to rally in support of flood-hit communities in Central New South Wales, with more than $30,000 so far donated to the relief effort via the church’s Disaster and Welfare Fund. However, with floodwaters now also affecting South Australian communities, more support is likely to be needed. ALC’s Festival of Learning will be back in February 2023 as an exclusively online event. Registrations for the three-day event will open on 17 January 2023 and close at noon (ACST) on 20 February. With the theme ‘Holy and dearly loved – called and clothed’, the Festival of Learning 2023 will be held from 21 to 23 February. Read more The offering from February’s LCANZ Convention of General Synod will go to supporting a Finke River Mission (FRM) project revising and reprinting Lutheran song and hymnbooks in Central Australian Aboriginal languages. Volunteers and FRM staff are working on the revision of four hymnals. Child Safety Plans for congregations are now due on 31 March 2023, after the LCANZ’s General Church Board approved an extension to the original deadline of 20 September 2022. Under LCA policy, all congregations are required to submit a plan to ensure they are meeting their legal, ethical and synodical obligations to be a child-safe congregation. Read more The LCA Yearbook, which included the Church Year readings, is no longer being published. We know that many of you use these readings as a worship resource and for your daily devotions, so we have published the 2023 readings as a standalone PDF document. We thank God for the wonderful people who wrote devotions for one or more weeks in 2022. Thank you for using your gifts to serve the thousands of us who read our LCA Daily Devotions every day. See who wrote devotions in 2022. If you're not already receiving Daily Devotions in your inbox every day, today is a good day to sign up. Sign up to receive Daily Devotions. ENEWS CATCHUP » » » Australian Lutheran College 16 December Worship Planning Page 14 December NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD DIRECTORS (2) MINISTRY TO SENIORS LAY WORKER STORE WORKERS ASSISTANT MANAGER YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY FACILITATOR MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER DEPUTY TRIBUNAL ADMINISTRATOR LIVESTREAMING OPERATORS ST PAUL’S LUTHERAN CONGREGATION NHILL VIC IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH ROPELEY QLD STREHLOW 100th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS DVD NEAR-CITY OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Congregations and agencies of the LCANZ may advertise events or programs for a fee of $80 for one eNews bulletin or $100 for two. We can accept up to 40 words. Contact LCA Communications for more information. Multi-media deals with The Lutheran are also available; contact the editor. You are receiving this email because you are a pastor or lay leader of the LCANZ, or you have signed up to receive it, or have indicated to us you wish to receive it. To subscribe to other LCA eNews, click here. To unsubscribe from this list, click here. (Note that pastors in active service and some lay leaders are required to remain subscribed to this eNews, as it relates to their role.) To change your email address, click here. 197 Archer Street North Adelaide SA 5006 |