FoLA Public Meeting, Thursday 29 February 2024 Church Stumps and Four Children’s Graves: Headington Hill, Qld Speaker: Jennifer Stehn $5 Donation Held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide LIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live Across Australia, there are remnants of small communities that no longer exist. People who pass by these sites today often don’t […]

FoLA Public Meeting, Thursday 21 March 2024 Indonesian Christian Fellowship of Adelaide (ICFA) and their bule friend Speakers: Dasni Rau and Anthea Habel $5 Donation Held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide LIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live Dasni Rau arrived in Adelaide in 1990 at the invitation of the LCA as an exchange church […]

FoLA Public Meeting, Thursday 18 April 2024 Vanagas: Preserving Lobethal’s History; Preserving a Lutheran Relic Speaker: Andrew Zilm $5 Donation Held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide LIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live Jonas Vanagas seemed like an interesting character. A New Australian, he came to Lobethal after a long and, at times, threatening route […]

FoLA Public Meeting, Thursday 23 May 2024 SA History Festival City Germans: Pubs, Politicians and Pastors Speaker: Ben Hollister $5 Donation Held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide LIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live The German community in the City of Adelaide is the less known part of the German-South Australian story. Often from larger […]

Friends of Lutheran Archives Special Event Book launch: Enlightened Aboriginal Futures and Sandhill Girl Available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live Please join us for the launch of Enlightened Aboriginal Futures by Professor Barry Judd, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), University of Melbourne, and Associate Professor Katherine Ellinghaus, School of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University and the launch […]

FoLA Meeting August 2024 - Guide us by Thy hand to our fatherland: New perspectives on the Kavel migration to SA Also available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live Speaker: Johannes Boxdörfer $5 donation at the door. No bookings required. This presentation will focus on undocumented episodes in Kavel´s search for a new home for his church […]

FoLA Meeting September 2024 An Indigenous South: German Writers on Colonial South Australia From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. Its capital named for a German-born queen, it prospered from the sweat of immigrants who chose to leave their German homelands behind them. As they contributed to the […]