St Martin's Lutheran Church, Mt Gambier in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia | Religious organisation

St Martin's Lutheran Church, Mt Gambier

Locality: Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 8 8725 3216

Address: 17 Edward Street 5290 Mount Gambier, SA, Australia

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20.01.2022 Wonderful to see the Ladies coming together

18.01.2022 Registrations are open for Blueprint Ministries' RENEW Camp, which is being held at Ankara Campsite, Walker Flat, from 5 to 8 February 2021. RENEW is a camp fo...r young adults over the age of 18 and those who have just finished high school. It gives young people the opportunity to gather together for a weekend to connect with God and others. Campers are 'renewed' through worship, electives, activities, fellowship and late-night chats. For more information or to register, visit www.blueprintministries.org.au/camps/renew-2/. Registrations close 27 January 2021.

18.01.2022 DAILY DEVOTION: Joy in suffering by Kimberley Pfeiffer... Click here to download your printable verse to carry with you today. ‘But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved’ (Hebrews 10:39). Read Hebrews 10:3239 Is something causing you grief, or are you struggling in some way, physically, mentally, or emotionally? Are you in a battle right now? Can the people around you see it? Or is it a spiritual battle that you are hiding from those you know and love? Spiritual battles are as real as any physical battle. The torments of the mind can eat away at our souls just as much as any physical battle with cancer can waste away our bodies. Just because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean life is going to be easy. It’s a hard lesson that we all have to go through. For me, I think that in some ways, it seems that life is more difficult as a Christian. It’s as though we have been ‘woken up’ and can see the depths of endless suffering we face as broken people living in a broken world. It takes courage and confidence to put our trust in our Lord, especially when we are suffering. Sometimes despair wants to take us down its spiral. But we are reminded today that suffering is our training, and our faith in Christ brings a great reward. As Christians, we have a wonderful resource in Christ to endure suffering. For Lutherans, we call it ‘cross theology’. It is at the cross-point where God breaks into our lives. The weakness of our own cross is like a tear in the curtain through which Christ enters. In the battles we face, we have his name to call on. He comes to fight for us, through us, and with his spiritual army, the church. Oh, the battles the church has fought with prayer its greatest weapon! When we are suffering, it is hard to remember the battle has already been won for us by Christ on the cross. Faith teaches us to remember this so that in our suffering, we can rest and pray, rather than clench our fists, get angry, and prepare to fight. We call on the name of our Lord, who hears us and strengthens our spirit. As we do, we learn his plan, his fight, his victory, and his joy. Dear Heavenly Father, have mercy on us when we struggle in the battles of life. Send your Son, our Lord Jesus, into our battleground to strengthen us and restore our souls. By your Son, and because of his precious blood, hear the prayers of your church as we bring the needs of the world to your feet. Lord, in your mercy, Amen.

16.01.2022 Wishing everyone a Blessed 2021

14.01.2022 Advent is upon us!!!

13.01.2022 Funeral Service for the late Mrs Eileen Gertrude Beaton

10.01.2022 Wonderful uplifting music / songs for Sunday Service

08.01.2022 South Australian farmers David and Trudy Fiebig have been dairying for 40 years and are among the latest named as Master Breeders. Mr Fiebig says the Master Bre...eder is not something Warramont Holsteins has been actively seeking but says they are ‘delighted to win the award and thanks Holstein Australia for making the award possible’. He explains it is an important award because not everyone participates in showing or gets involved in other competitions. It’s an award where you don’t have to pick up a set of clippers or a camera but it rewards us for breeding all-round good cattle says Mr Fiebig. Both David and Trudy are second generation dairy farmers who began share-farming in the early 1980s. They started dairying with 160 cows on David’s parents’ Ron and Mary’s property in Meningie, 300 KMs from Mount Gambier. After 12 years of share-farming, David and Trudy were milking up to 250 cows, more than double the average herd size at that time. By 1993, David and Trudy started their stud Warramont and 2 years later purchased a 90 cow herd along with 100 acres North West of Mount Gambier, bringing with them another 10 cows, as well as a few others from his parents’ stud which David had flushed for embryos. I used embryo transfers enormously over my 25 years says David. He pinpoints the mid-80s as the period when embryo technology started to take off and mentions his father Ron had suggested to ‘put all the embryos from the best cows in the cross bred cows and build a herd that way’. He highlights ET as an important breeding tool due to its accuracy of identifying good cows and says ‘it is as important as classifying and herd testing’. You can stick your best 10% of cows in your worst 10%, so that those bottom end cows don’t have heifers and your very best cows do he says. David also lists classifying and herd testing as being crucial to Warramont's success. He explains you can look at your herd with rose-coloured glasses and you don’t want to do that. You want to identify all of the little things that need to be picked up. The first cow registered under the Warramont prefix was Warramont Aerostar Darlene, from a New Zealand stud and milking 114,000 litres. She went on to breed a 3 generation pedigree achieving over 100,000 litres per animal, the highest milking 135,000 litres. Another noted family in the Warramont herd is the Frosti family who derived from the American Plushanski Chief Faith family imported by David’s father in the 1990s. They produced a daughter who went on to deliver Warramont’s first EX cow Warramont Winluke Frosti. In 2006, David’s son Brett took her showing and won champion titles in the Melbourne and Adelaide shows, and five weeks later the Mount Gambier Fair. He says she’s produced a 4 generation EX Warramont line which is an achievement I’m very proud of. Mr Fiebig also marks the Pen-Col Dream family as important and says he would have had at least 100 descendants from the cow who produced 4 generations down, including Australia’s 2019 top genomic bull Warramont Superhero Dave, 'an achievement in itself' says David. Over the last 28 years, David and Trudy have grown their business and now own 515 acres of land with a herd of approximately 300 cows. Mr Fiebig says we’ve really enjoyed it and we wouldn’t have stayed in dairying as long as we have if it wasn’t for breeding. It’s made dairying interesting and enjoyable. Warramont plans to sell 130 of their autumn calving herd on 15th March and downsize to half their acreage to free up some time. David says you reflect on generations passing and think of how much they’ve done for you and the opportunities they’ve given to you. He explains his parents were extremely supportive and his son Brett has done a fantastic job which gives him high hopes for generations to come. Brett has made a substantial contribution to the farm over the last 2 decades and share-farmed with David and Trudy from 2010 to 2016. Trudy and I are very proud of the work we’ve done and we are very proud of our family, where we come from, where we are at and what is yet to come says Mr Fiebig. Prefix: Warramont Member: D J & T A Fiebig Location: Mt Gambier, South Eastern SA How long have you been in the industry: 40 years Farming generation: 2nd Generation Land size: 515 acres Cows milked: 300 Important cow families: Winluke Frosty family, Pen-Col family, Darlene family Favourite bull used: Ked Juror Current Bull Team: Dreambig, Mr Super Contender, A2 P2, Proceed and River Important traits: udders, feet and legs, capacity and good temperament First EX cow: Warramont Winluke Frosti South Australian Holstein Branch South East of SA Holstein Sub-Branch Western District HA Sub Branch NSW Holsteins Holstein Tasmania North West Sub Branch West Gippsland sub branch Far North Queensland Holsteins Northern Vic Sub Branch of Holstein Australia. #HolsteinCommunity #Holsteins #RegisteredHolsteins #MasterBreeder #MasterBreeders #AusDairy

08.01.2022 Registrations are now open for the LCA's New Horizons event. This conference aims to: Offer support to leaders and congregations as they respond to new opport...unities for mission and ministry Build the capacity of LCA/NZ members to meaningfully engage with people of other cultural backgrounds For more information, visit www.lca.org.au/new-horizons See more

06.01.2022 St Martin’s Youth Group Final Event for the year! Join us at for an evening at the beach from 6:30-9pm Friday December 4. A fish and chip dinner provided. Yr 6 and up welcome. Drop off and pick up from St Martins College. Please RSVP to 87 251 430.

05.01.2022 DAILY DEVOTION: Don’t look back by Verena Johnson... ‘But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt’ (Genesis 19:26). Read Genesis 19:1529 We know very little about Lot’s wife. We don’t know her name, but she has been called ‘Ado’ or ‘Edith’ in some Jewish traditions. We don’t know where she was from. What we do know is that despite the angel’s very specific instruction not to look back, she did. There are a lot of varying theories out there on why she looked back. Some say it was a punishment and that when she looked back at the cities that were so evil, she betrayed her secret longing for that way of life. Other much kinder theories speculate she was looking to see if her daughters were following. Regardless of the reason, Lot’s wife became an instant pillar of salt when she looked back. It seems very harsh. We can spend a lot of our lives looking backward for a whole range of reasons. Wondering ‘what if’, replaying actions and conversations, and regretting things we’ve done or not done, to name a few. The new one for this year has been, ‘If only I’d used all that time I had at home more wisely!’ We can spend so much time looking back that we don’t live in the moment and embrace all the joy and possibilities God gives us in the present. Thank God that he doesn’t turn us all into pillars of salt but forgives us every day. Thank him that because of his grace, we don’t have to live with what-ifs, replays and regrets. In him, each day is a new beginning with new potential (Lamentations 3:22,23). Dear God, I thank you that you are a God of forgiveness and new beginnings. Help me not to look back. Help me to give you all my what-ifs, replays and regrets, and leave them with you. Help me to walk into each new day with you and embrace all the moments, joys and possibilities you give me. Amen.

05.01.2022 DAILY DEVOTION: Judging ourselves by Verena Johnson... ‘For at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things’ (Romans 2:1). Read Romans 2:116 We make hundreds of judgements every day about other drivers on the way to work or the people we see on the bus, those we work with, the people we pass on the street or queue up with at the shops, the people we hear or read about in news items. Who hasn’t made judgements about the recent American elections! It’s so easy to judge; however, as this verse points out, when we judge others, we are judging ourselves. We can’t make excuses for ourselves and judge others, as we are no different from anyone else. We all have our flaws. We all make mistakes and mess things up. We all say and do the wrong things. We also can’t sit in judgement and rate sins on a scale of one to ten, with one being a small slip-up and ten being totally evil. It’s all sin. We’ve all sinned and deserve God’s judgement. Verse 11 of this passage says, ‘For God does not show favouritism’. God does not show favouritism when it comes to judging sin, but he also shows no favouritism when it comes to his love or his grace and forgiveness. It’s there for everyone who believes and anyone who asks. God loves us and also all those people we are so quick to judge. He wants to shower his grace and forgiveness on them as well as on us. What’s more, he wants you and me to show his love, grace and forgiveness towards them too. One of my wise mentors once told me that whenever they are tempted to judge others, they remind themselves that the other is a person for whom Christ died. Dear God, thank you for your love and the grace and forgiveness you shower on me. Help me to show that same love, grace and forgiveness toward others. Amen.

05.01.2022 Today, the 11 November marks the anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War (191418). 102 years ago, on 11 November 1918, the guns of the Wes...tern Front fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. With their armies retreating and close to collapse, German leaders signed an Armistice, bringing to an end the First World War. Five divisions of the Australian Corps had been at the forefront of the allied advance to victory, but victory had come at a heavy cost. They suffered almost 48,000 casualties during 1918, including more than 12,000 dead. In the four years of the war, more than 330,000 Australians had served overseas, with more than 60,000 giving their lives. Each year, our College Captains place a wreath at the local monument on Remembrance Day and observe one minute’s silence at 11:00am, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. Thank you to David and Naomi for doing St Martins Lutheran College proud this morning at Vansittart Park. #lestweforget

04.01.2022 Congratulations to everyone

02.01.2022 Thanks for the visit last night little Wallaby. You are a bit early though, Kindy doesn’t start until Wednesday 27th January and we actually only take enrolment...s for Kindy aged Children! We are also excited to extend our hours and are now open from 8am until 5pm with before and after care. We still have spots available for this year so bounce on in! St Martin’s Kindergarten Ph: (08) 8725 5702 E: [email protected] #kindy #kindergarten #mountgambier #southaustralia #limestonecoast #kindyfriends #education #educationandcare #childcareprofessional #loosepartsplay #natureplay #playbasedlearning #eylf #QIP