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PILGRIM LUTHERAN CHURCH, MAGILL

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (17:34): It gives me great pleasure in this adjournment debate this afternoon to recognise the 40th anniversary of the Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Magill, which was celebrated the weekend before last. As a member of the local area, if not the exact location of the church, I enjoyed the opportunity to speak after the service, not least because it is the church of which I am happy to be a member of the congregation.

It was a special occasion. The President of the Lutheran Church of Australia, Mike Semmler, delivered a roaring sermon that challenged all of those present to greater service. There were over 200 people present to celebrate the 40th birthday, which is a slightly larger congregation than usual, and all present certainly enjoyed that. We also had the President of the Lutheran Church of Australia South Australia/Northern Territory, Pastor David Altus there. The congregation's pastor, Peter Faggotter, and the chairman of the congregation, Garry Wedding, are to be congratulated not only for organising a fantastic day but also, more importantly, for the work that the church does—as do other churches and other community, volunteer and service groups—in our community.

I was pleased to read out a letter from the member for Hartley to the congregation, in which she talked about some of the work they do in the broader community, and I was pleased to expand on that in my comments. In particular, they do work with bread runs for local families who are struggling, Meals on Wheels, the Magill kindergarten across the street, the Nosh and Natter outreach that they do with the community, and other local community work.

They also do broader work across Australia through support for the Alice Springs town ministry. Recently, the congregation received a request from the Traralgon congregation in Victoria, which has a significant Sudanese community that needed help with transport, so the Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Magill was able to donate the money to buy a bus for that Sudanese community. Internationally, they particularly support young children in Cambodia who have so little. I certainly appreciate the work that all of the members of the congregation of the Pilgrim Lutheran Church do and, on the occasion of their 40th anniversary, I am pleased to make that recognition in this house.

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