Please pray for all those people in eastern Australia whose lives have been tragically affected by the severe flooding they are experiencing. Pray … for protection of people as they struggle to survive: for God’s comfort for those who have lost loved ones: for courage in adversity, and health and strength for those who are working to rescue, support and minister to the suffering and lost; that God will continue to provide for his people …
Do you have a “let down” feeling as the days of our eagerly awaited, but necessarily cancelled, Lutheran Women of Australia (LWA) Triennial Convention approach? Here are some snippets from the Convention held just 40 years ago on 23,24 September 1981 at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Toowoomba, Queensland. The theme for convention was “Aflame for Christ”. A report on the convention observed: “Toowoomba in springtime is aflame with brilliant colours of flowering trees, shrubs …
There is an ‘ought-ness’ about life that troubles the reflective mind. He or she senses that we ought to be happier than we are, better than we are, wiser, more alive. We ought to be thinner, kinder, more peaceful, more controlled; and most thoughtful people have occasional, late-at-night presentiments that we ought to consider our finiteness. As Sappho, the poet, said: ‘Not even God Himself can do what cannot be; and surely as starry night …
Groups of women who come together under God for Bible study and fellowship vary from barely half a dozen to around fifty in number. No matter what the size of the group or where it is, our women have the same reason to meet.
A popular commercial in the 1960s used these words to publicise the advancement of women’s rights. An article in Lutheran Women 40 years ago, stated that women’s quest for equal rights “has impacted every part of our existence from things as frivolous as fashion to areas as serious as laws”. Some interesting facts quoted included: “In 1925, a woman’s work week totalled between 42 and 49 hours. Today [1981], with women having entered the work force with men, her …