Canaan in Australia | Lutheran Women of Australia

Located in Theresa Park, 55km southwest of Sydney, you will find a place called “Canaan of God’s Comfort”. It is home to the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary in Australia, a small community of Protestant sisters who have been living and working in Australia since 1979. They are part of a larger international sisterhood whose origin and main centre (Kanaan) is in Darmstadt, Germany. Founders Mother Basilea and Mother Martyria prayed for revival amongst the young ...

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Lynette Lauterbach

Lynette Lauterbach worships at St John’s Lutheran Church in Naracoorte. She and her husband John, who is a cabinet maker, own and operate Willowbrook Cottages B&Bs. They have three adult children, Vanessa (dec), Nicole and Bradley and three grandchildren, Olivia, Ethan and Henry.