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The LCANZ is continuing its efforts to prevent domestic and family violence (DFV) among its members, in the wake of the release of a report which finds that some religious beliefs about gender can be used to justify DFV.

Details of the improved Safe Church training program will be officially released to the church in LCA eNews on 30 April 2024.

The Lutheran Church of Australia and related entities, such as Lutheran schools, will have the opportunity to benefit from the LLL’s decision to transition to a Religious Charitable Development Fund (RCDF).

The Way Forward working groups are in the development phase of the final framework that will be put to General Synod in October as a proposal for how the LCANZ might operate as one church with two practices of ordination.

by Narelle Kleinschmidt

Members of St Paul’s Lutheran Church Beaudesert, south-west of Brisbane, recently proved the adage ‘If the members can’t come to church, then church will go to the members’!

Mission collaboration between Lutherans in Australia and Bavaria dates back nearly 150 years and this friendship remains as treasured as ever.