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Important dates
Date Event Location
27-29 Novem-
ber
Christmas Tree Festival—hand made decorations and gifts for sale
St James Lutheran Church Moorabbin
28 November 7.30pm
Taize Service, 7.30pm Cuppa, 8.00pm service
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Knoxfield
29 November German Christmas Bazaar—German food, gift ideas and more
St John’s German Luther-an Church , Springvale
01 December District Office closed—retreat day
07 December Farewell Tandara Interns Tandara Lutheran Camp Halls Gap
14 December
Farewell for Pastor Ian Vainikka St John’s Lutheran Church, Southgate
14 December
10.00am
Thanksgiving Service celebrating the 50 year anniversary of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Mildura
28 December Farewell for Pastor Andrew Dockerill
St John’s Lutheran Church, Wodonga
Lutheran Church of Australia VIC/TAS
Ph (03) 9236 1200 Email [email protected]
755 Station St Box Hill VIC 3128
End of Year Reminders
Don’t forget the NCLS Community Connections Pack
LCA will be requesting statistics soon. Has your
church appointed a statistician?
Have all the child and youth program volunteers
completed their training? Are all the programs docu-
mented on line?
Are the details for your church correct on LAMP?
District Voices News from the Vic/Tas District November 2014
20 November 2014
On October 12 the old St Paul’s Lutheran Church at Shepparton was decommissioned at an emotional service during which Pastor Matt Anker related the history of the church from it’s beginnings to the sizeable congregation it has now become. A sausage sizzle and a visit to the new church capped off a day of celebration
The original St
Paul’s building –
so crowded at
times one had to
exit the church
by the side door
after communion
because it was
impossible to
make your way
back to your
pew.
The new Church
where the members
joined on the day of
decommissioning
then celebrated
their new worship
space in a service of
consecration on
November 9th.
Upwards of 500
people attended
this service.
Endings and New Beginnings—St Paul’s Shepparton
From our Bishop...
Text: When the Son of Man comes in his glory… (Matthew 25:31)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
What a great District Convention we enjoyed at St Philip’s and Good News, Tar-neit! Now that’s behind us and we’re getting close to the end of the year. School is nearly finished and some of us are looking forward to a summer break. Times have their beginning, middle and end – calendar years, school years, service in a particular job, seasons of life and life itself. Our Lord is Lord of them all and tells us something about each of them, so we can know our origins and our ends while we travel in what is always the middle. How good it is that, before we celebrate Jesus’ birth, we hear in Sunday’s gospel that he will one day come in his glory, and all the angels with him. The end is his too, even though we know little about the details. How good that it is full of his grace for us too, making it a new beginning as well.
It’s this faith which sustains God’s people through good times and bad. I’m thinking especially of so many grain growers for whom good-looking crops have died without rain. Yields vary, but many are taking off nothing at all. Please Lord, sustain these yours servants through great disappointment and hardship.
In regard to recent news I’m delighted that we’ve been successful in securing graduate pastors for Gippsland (Tony Castle), North Tasmania (Nicholas Kitchen) and Wodonga (Jaswanth Kukatlapalli) where Pastor Andrew Dockerill is being reassigned to South Aus-tralia for family reasons. Congratulations to these parishes for their willingness to re-ceive beginning pastors. The big event of recent weeks has been the opening and con-secration of the new St Paul’s Lutheran Church building at Shepparton, which includes ‘African House’, a fine space for service-providers and community groups to use seven days a week. God has been very good to allow this project to unfold. So also the Pa-kenham-Lakeside Mission Project where school-pastoring and church-planting are being combined to bring the gospel to many. District Church Council meets this Saturday (22nd) and we will be welcoming new members David Bergmann (Croydon), Ralph Brink-mann (North Geelong) and Pastor Mathew Ker (Warrnambool). DCC exercises ultimate governance over District activities.
There are big stories and small stories in our life together. Please send District office news of your local events. Anniversaries and other celebrations are good to share so we can all recognise the grace and blessing of the Lord of beginnings, middles and ends.
God’s peace and love through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bishop Greg Pietsch
District News
Prime Minister welcomed by Luther College.
Recently Luther College was privileged to
welcome the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, and
several parliamentarians to the school .
Pictured here, excited and slightly nervous VCE
students demonstrate experiments associated
with their VCE chemistry studies for Mr Abbott
and visitors.
Year 12 in 2015
Are you in year 12 or an equivalent next year or do
you know someone who is?
Please contact Jemimah Juers for a showbag of
goodies— email [email protected]
Raising of the Cross at
Greensborough.
On Sunday Nov 16 the cross was
raised at Calvary Lutheran Church
Greensborough, completing the
renovations at the church plant.
Congratulations
to Chelsea and Pastor Tom Pietsch of Grovedale on the
birth this week of baby Benedict, a wonderful gift from
God.