The Together in mission publication summarises and celebrates the many projects and missions that the LLL has assisted in the previous financial year.
It is full of good news stories and reports from recipients of LLL funding, whether through competitive interest loans, Permanent Fund grants or allocated grants.
We encourage everyone to read the latest edition to find out how the support of our customers has assisted the wider church.
You can view the articles via pdf, flipbook or scroll down to the individual articles.
| 2020 Edition | Download the pdf or view the flipbook. |
| 2019 Edition | Download the pdf or view the flipbook. |
| 2018 Edition | Download the pdf or view the flipbook. |
| 2017 Edition | Download the pdf. |
| 2016 Edition | Download the pdf. |
Bursting with good news stories and reports from recipients of LLL funding; have the annual Together in mission sent straight to you!
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Together in mission is designed to inform our supporters about how LLL Australia is assisting the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) in its mission and ministry, across Australia and overseas. The LLL’s mission is to support...
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The LLL launched a brand new feature in February 2020 – the LLL app. The LLL recognised that consumers have become more accustomed to using an app for their day-to-day lives in recent years. Shopping, transport...
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2020 - What a year! There’s no doubt that 2020 will be remembered as the year that has changed our attitudes and affected the way we live together for now and potentially for many years to...
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40-years of communion set gifts 2019 marked 40 years since the LLL began providing a private communion set to final year pastoral students graduating from Australian Lutheran College (ALC) (formerly Luther Seminary) and being ordained into...
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LLL Mission Outreach Grants In 2020 there have been three Mission Outreach Grants (formally called Mission Stimulus Grants) awarded to projects in South Australia and Victoria. Unfortunately, some applications and evaluations have been delayed due to...
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LLL Mission Stimulus Grant by Steve Liebelt Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Hamilton, Victoria, owns and operates Good Shepherd Early Childhood Services. We have 180 children from 151 families attending the service each week with 34...
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LLL Mission Stimulus Grant by Pam McMahon In 2015, Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Belconnen, Canberra, received an LLL Mission Stimulus Grant of $11,250 for an outreach program for young families in the local area. The...
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LLL Camping Ministry Grants In November 2019, the LLL Board announced a significant sponsorship of Christian Life Weeks (CLWs) and similar LCA District camping ministry activities. The $75,000 annual grant will be provided for the next...
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LLL Camping Ministry Grants by Ian Crambrook COVID-19 has thrown Christian Life Weeks (CLWs) and other camping ministries into chaos. Below is an update from SA-NT District which reflects how districts have overcome the problem of...
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by Kelvin Grivell Encounter Lutheran College has, at times over the past eight years, looked more like a construction site than a school campus. Eight separate, significant building projects have enabled Encounter to cater for an...
Read more about Encounter College, Victor Harbor, developments
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LCA Ministry Support Fund by Peter Schirmer LOVE COMES TO LIFE when we manage God’s gifts with integrity, as good stewards, so that his kingdom may grow. There are five Churchwide departments that provide services to...
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Special Ministry Fund In July 2018, a group of 26 church members travelled to Adelaide from different states and New Zealand to participate in a five-day tour, called the LCA Immersion tour. They took part in...
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Local Mission Support by Tania Nelson How can I give you an adequate glimpse of the breadth of the work of Local Mission and the abundance of blessings given and received as a result of the...
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Special Ministry Fund In February 2020, the LCA’s Grow Ministries launched a “practical, accessible” and “refreshing” new resource which offers a new way of looking at confirmation called Grow Disciples – A guide for cultivating lifelong...
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Cross Cultural Ministry by Craig Heidenreich Lutherans like to say we take the word of God seriously. If you are reading this today I’m sure you would say with me: “Lord, what you tell me in...
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Reconciliation Action Plan by Marilyn Wall Reconciliation is the good news of Jesus’ saving love that makes reconciliation everybody’s business, and our mission to share that gospel invites us to share this journey together. Our Lutheran...
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LCC SA and ALWS sponsorships. LCC SA 50th Anniversary The LLL had the pleasure of sponsoring Lutheran Community Care (LCC) SA/NT as it celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2019. LCC operates in South Australia and the...
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Together in mission is designed to inform our supporters about how LLL Australia is assisting the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) in its mission and ministry, across Australia and overseas. The mission of the LLL is...
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New location for PNG artefacts. by Timothy Pietsch. Wantok Place is a museum of Papua New Guinea (PNG) artefacts. The collection is owned by the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) and the museum is under the...
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LCA adopts REG. The Regular Electronic Giving program is known affectionately as REG has been officially adopted by the LCA, with the blessing of its ‘birth parent’, the LLL. In the last article regarding REG (Together...
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Auslan – Seeing the word. by Pastor Michael Prenzler. The Adelaide Deaf Community Church (ADCC) is a congregation of deaf Christians based in Adelaide. It is unique in the LCA as it offers worship services and...
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Splash Youth in Rockingham – revisited. From the start, Matt Schubert and his team were successful in attracting youth to attend Splash Youth, with their largest night reaching 113 youth kids. But having meaningful conversations with...
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Ministry support at Grovedale and Geelong. by Michelle Filipovic. It’s been six years since St Paul’s Grovedale embarked on a new mission in the Geelong area and five years since the first grant was received from...
Read more about LLL Mission Stimulus Grant - Grovedale and Geelong Vic
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Non-interest-bearing – facts and thanks As we say on the LLL website, ‘LLL account holders can provide additional support to a particular project or department of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) by nominating their account...
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Four Mission Stimulus Grants awarded in three Districts. Earlier in 2019, four fantastic mission projects were awarded LLL Mission Stimulus Grants in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland with a total $75,000 being allocated. Victoria/Tasmania District Pakenham...
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Stage 1 Development Project. by Aaron Glover. From next year, Luther Heights Youth Camp will get an opportunity to share the love of Jesus with 6,000 more people every year – how amazing is that! We...
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Senior school stage 2. by Liz Smith. Navigator College in Port Lincoln, SA, has received approval to commence building its Senior School expansion. The new Senior School stage 2 build consists of two science laboratories, art...
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Live streaming the love of Jesus. by Celia Fielke. For the last six years, Lutheran Media has been producing live stream worship services in partnership with Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Toowoomba, Queensland, and St Michael’s Lutheran...
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Helping to Grow Disciples. by Jodi Brook. In recent years, Grow Ministries has researched and had discussions with pastors, students and parents to discover what makes confirmation ministry effective. Thanks to the LLL, Grow Ministries has...
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God’s love – our care. by Colleen Fitzpatrick. ‘Love comes to life’ when we see the image of God in every person – no matter how much age has wearied their body and mind – and...
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Together, reaching out with the gift we have received. by Nevin Nitschke. “Through the seminars in Biblical Reconciliation, we could affirm again the identity of the church... regain the joy of the Gospel…and practice what we...
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A Tract Mission Challenge. by Anne Hansen. A number of years ago, I was given an interesting challenge: a group of school chaplains approached me and asked could I produce tracts for them without including the...
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Stepping out to bring love to life. by Jen Pfitzner. More than 700 people around Australia have put their feet where their heart is – and stepped out in 2019 for Walk My Way. An initiative...
