NSW–ACT District

2023 Pastors Conference
2023-10-09 12:00 - 2023-10-11 13:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Warrambui Retreat and Conference Centre, 322 Greenwood Road, Murrumbateman, NSW, 2582, Australia
Pastors Conference for Pastors of the LCANSW and ACT District
Registrations now open

Frontier Intensive Training - Jesus and the Gospels
2023-09-25 - 2023-09-29 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, 13 Kemp Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444, Australia
Frontier School of Mission
Intensive Training – Jesus and the gospels
Port Macquarie, NSW
25-29 September 2023
An understanding of who Jesus of Nazareth is and how he is portrayed in the Gospels is fundamental to the church’s task of mission today. In this unit, taught by Frontier School of Mission dean, Dr Mark Worthing, participants will learn basic skills of reading the four Gospels. They will look at the different portrayals of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels and in the Gospel of John. There will be a focus on how Jesus was understood in the Gospels and how various groups view Jesus today.

Frontier Intensive Training - Introduction to Preaching
2023-08-21 - 2023-08-25 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, 13 Kemp Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444, Australia
Frontier School of Mission
Intensive Training – INTRODUCTION TO PREACHING
Port Macquarie, NSW
21-25 August 2023
Dr Tim Stringer will be leading this unit, designed especially for current lay preachers and those preparing for this role. The intensive will also be of interest to experienced preachers who are interested in honing their skills of public proclamation within the current preaching context. Special attention will be given to missional preaching, the use of multi-media, and delivering sermons via various on-line platforms. Participants will learn not just how to exegete a biblical text, but also how to exegete (or read) a congregation. There will be opportunity to deliver a short sermon in class and receive feedback, as well as to deliver a sermon in an appropriate setting after the intensive and receive further feedback.

Frontier Intensive Training - Theology of Mission
2023-07-24 - 2023-07-28 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, 13 Kemp Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444, Australia
Frontier School of Mission
Intensive Training – Theology of Mission
Port Macquarie, NSW
24-28 July 2023
What on earth is God doing for heaven’s sake and how do we join God in this work? This intensive will look at how God has worked in the past, and what God is doing in other places, to help us discern how God is working with us today. Our context has changed radically in the past decade. To bring the good news of Jesus to the world today we need to move beyond programs and techniques and get back to the basics of being Christians in our communities. This intensive will be led by Pastor Steen Olsen (LCANZ emeritus pastor and bishop) and Pastor Mat von Stanke (Life Way, Newcastle NSW).

Mission and Ministry Conference
2023-06-13 12:00 - 2023-06-15 13:30 | Warrambui Retreat and Conference Centre, 322 Greenwood Road, Murrumbateman, NSW, 2582, Australia
‘Connecting to Connect’
Mission and Ministry Conference is for District Layworkers, Pastors, Congregational and Ministry Leaders.
At Warrambui Retreat and Conference Centre

Safe Church Level 1 Face-to-Face Workshop
2023-05-27 09:00 - 16:00 | NSW
27 May 2023
9:00 am – 4:00 pm (sign-in from 8:45 am)
Registrations close 22 May 2023
BYO Morning Tea & Lunch
St Paul’s Lutheran School Hall, 34 Lyne Street, Henty

For more information, Contact Carolyn Kiss on 0457 770 100 | carolyn.kiss@lca.org.au

To register click on this link: https://cvent.me/YBMvLY?RefId=Henty20230527

Frontier Intensive Training - Missional Discipleship
2023-03-20 08:00 - 2023-03-24 17:00 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, 13 Kemp Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444, Australia
Melbourne School of Theology is excited to offer two units as intensives at its MST-Frontier Port Macquarie campus in the first semester of 2023 in collaboration with MST-Frontier School of Mission. The units can be applied toward either an accredited Certificate/Graduate Certificate (4 units) or a Diploma/Graduate Diploma (8 units) or can be taken as an audit for those who would simply like to sit in on the lectures and do the readings.
This unit, taught by LCA Executive Officer for Local Mission Dr Tania Nelson, and LCA pastor for New and Renewing Churches, Nathan Hedt, begins with Jesus’ practice of discipleship as found in the Gospels and examines practical ways in which discipleship can occur in various missional settings within the Australian context.
The student will not only be challenged to re-discover Jesus’ radical approach to discipleship, but to apply this to their own lives and to mission and ministry in contemporary Australia.
Books to consider reading in preparation for this unit:

John Stott. The Radical Disciple: Wholehearted Christian Living (IVP, 2021)
Tania Nelson. The Challenge of Missional Renewal (ACR, 2022)
Nathan Hedt. Return from Exile: How Congregations can survive and thrive in a post-pandemic world (ACR, 2022)

For more information contact Dr Mark Worthing, Campus Academic Dean of MST-Frontier.
Email: frontier@lca.org.au
Phone: 0428 557 663

Frontier Intensive Training - Foundational Christian Beliefs
2023-02-20 08:00 - 2023-02-24 17:00 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, 13 Kemp Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444, Australia
Melbourne School of Theology is excited to offer two units as intensives at its MST-Frontier Port Macquarie campus in the first semester of 2023 in collaboration with MST-Frontier School of Mission. The units can be applied toward either an accredited Certificate/Graduate Certificate (4 units) or a Diploma/Graduate Diploma (8 units) or can be taken as an audit for those who would simply like to sit in on the lectures and do the readings.
This unit, taught by Dr Mark Worthing, pastor of St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Port Macquarie, is an introduction to basic Christian beliefs.
The unit examines Christian teachings with a focus on the mission of the church. The material is structured around the Church Year, giving it a practical focus for worship.
We begin with Advent and the preparation for the coming of Jesus, look at the incarnation of God at Christmas, reflect on Jesus’ death and resurrection as commemorated on Good Friday and Easter, the Holy Spirit as celebrated at Pentecost, then Trinity Sunday, the doctrine of the Church for the Pentecost season, and finish with a celebration of the coming of Christ the King, which we celebrate on the last Sunday of the Church Year.
Books to consider reading in preparation for this unit:

Mark Worthing. This is Most Certainly True: Learning Jesus Christ through Luther’s Small Catechism (ACR 2022)
Hans Schwarz. The Christian Faith: A Creedal Statement (Baker, 2014)

For more information contact Dr Mark Worthing, Campus Academic Dean of MST-Frontier.
Email: frontier@lca.org.au
Phone: 0428 557 663
