Pastoral Care

Domestic violence online seminar

Joint Churches Domestic Violence Project (JCDVPP) are starting a series of online seminars: Domestic Violence – Not in my Church?

Pastoral care services

To support your pastor and other local  pastoral carers, a churchwide network of carers has been trained and is available for you.

Hope video resource

This video on ‘hope’ has been prepared by the Pastoral Care Working Group as a guided study for you to reflect on questions around hope.

General Synod Preparation and Prayer

Less than three months to go until General Synod! Are you praying for our church – for hope in God’s power to heal and renew us?

Help Needed! A Video About Hope

The Lutheran Church of Australia are inviting you to send us a selfie in which you share your hopes for the LCANZ.

LCANZ Pastoral Care Program Launched

The College of Bishops, in conjunction with the Pastoral Care Working Group of the Way Forward Project, has launched a program to address pastoral care needs within the church.

Call for Contributions: Special Themed LTJ Journal Issue

The special themed Lutheran Theological Journal August 2023 edition offers opportunities to reflect on the implications of VAD.

Voluntary Assisted Dying Now Legal in QLD

Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) became legal in Queensland on 1st January 2023. Rev Dr Russell Briese has prepared a paper entitled ‘Offering Pastoral Care to those seeking Voluntary Assisted Dying’.

The Craft of Sacred Listening

In a noisy world, how do we listen to God and to one another? Too often we find ourselves listening to respond, rather than listening to hear.