Feb2024
Save the date for the first-ever ALWS Walk My Way Ukraine
QUT Gardens Point Campus in the heart of Brisbane is a long way from Kyiv, where children continue to suffer from ongoing conflict.
Feb2024
A stack of action for kids hurt by war
Australian Lutheran World Service has launched 100 days of action to help children hurt by the war in Ukraine and is challenging LCANZ members to support the campaign by donating, walking – and making (and eating) pancakes!
Oct2023
Help save lives in Gaza: donate to provide critical medical care and support
Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) has committed $50,000 to support the work of the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem as the humanitarian situation in Gaza rapidly deteriorates.
Jun2023
ALWS and the Good Samaritan
30 June 2023 Listen to this podcast https://lca.box.com/shared/static/gxek1t09s531qlziyr5y6tp6rex8t02l.mp3 ALWS and the Good Samaritan Dr Brian Neldner On World Refugee Day, Lisa McIntosh chats with someone who has given decades of… Read more
Apr2023
That IS how you make porridge … and fight famine
When Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) Board members and staff met in Albury, New South Wales, recently to mark 75 years since the Lutheran Church’s ministry to refugees in Australia began, there was no grand party to celebrate the milestone. Instead, they shared bowls of porridge.
Jul2022
All ages step out for refugee kids
by Jonathan Krause
When more than 40 people on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula recently gathered to do a 12-kilometre Walk My Way to support refugee children through ALWS, young Amos says it was worth the exhaustion.