Blogs

Our world’s response to COVID-19 has finely tuned our ears to the messages of this Holy Week. Our ears are finely tuned to the experiences of our Lord Jesus … Our ears are also finely tuned to the “reason for the season” …

Before Covid-19, Good News Lutheran Church’s (GNLC) had a typical youth group, running games, excursions, and small group bible studies, but as regulations around physical distancing began to escalate, they realised they would have to adapt.

Congregations have had to quickly adapt to new social distancing measures, so we thought we would share some statistics of what happened throughout the LCAQD on Sunday March 29.

Bishop Paul shares the story of Martin Rinkart who served as a Lutheran pastor through an era of human history we call the “30 Years War” when over 1/3 of the German people died as a result of war and plague.

Our first story of how a LCAQD congregation is maintaining community worship, discipleship and fellowship while not able to meet in person.

Be encouraged by this story from Townsville, of how the congregation and early childhood service, with the help of your donations, reached out in love to their lcoal community and beyond following the 2019 flood.

On the LCAQD Mission and Ministry Resource page, under the Church Offline tabs, you will find some information that may help you reorient your community to being ‘Church Offline’. Click on the link to take you there.

How do we engage with each other and the proclamation of the gospel during such a time of crisis?  Worship is God coming to us (incarnationally) to heal, equip, empower and encourage us in our day-to-day mission!

As we continue in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to serve the people in our care, the communities and agencies of the LCAQD will undertake the following responses to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) declared by the World Health Organisation to be a Pandemic.

In the wake of the coronavirus panic, Bishop Paul shares evangelical advice that Dr Martin Luther gave to the citizens of Wittenberg during a similar situation.