NEWS FROM FINKE RIVER MISSION OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA
Words from Yirara College Chapel
NOVEMBER 2025
WHAT’S INSIDE? PAG E 2 KIWIRRKURA BIBLE COURSE
PAG E 3 In the Yirara College Chapel you can see four words:
ONE FAMILY, GOD’S FAMILY.
KO R E A N C O M M U N I T Y V I S I T S T I T R E E S TAT I O N
PAG E 4 ‘WE ARE IN THE LORD’S SERVICE’
Everyone at Yirara College is a family together. It doesn’t matter where you come from, or what language you speak. At Yirara we are held together as One. We are held together by God. But what do we know about families? Sometimes families have fun. And sometimes families have trouble. Sometimes families get broken up. Sometimes mothers and fathers don’t talk anymore. Sometimes families argue and fight. J U S T L I K E T H E B I B L E FA M I L I E S . Sometimes we are God’s arguing family. Sometimes we are God’s broken family. Sometimes we are God’s trouble family. But always, in God, we are still One Family. Even when we have trouble or are broken. Because God’s love binds us together, Even when our own love cannot. And then, in Christ, these things are true: One Broken Family, God’s Broken Family. One Trouble Family, God’s Trouble Family. One Healing Family, God’s Healing Family. One Caring Family, God’s Caring Family. Pastor Basil Schild works as Chaplain to Yirara College.
PAG E 6 BAPTISMS THROUGH THE YEAR - THE CHURCH IS GROWING
PAG E 8 I N M E M O R I A M : PA S T O R M WHEELER
PAG E 9 IN MEMORIAM: DA P H N E P U N TJ I N A
PAG E 10 ALICE SPRINGS LUTHERAN C H U R C H C E L E B R AT E S FIRST COMMUNIONS
PAG E 11 A TRIP TO THE A R C H I V E S U N C OV E R S LOST TREASURES P R AY E R P O I N T S
PAG E 12 PERRY ’S STORY