Lutheran Hour Ministries, in partnership with Group Publishing, takes grade school- through middle school-aged children and some adults on a week-long adventure each year. Gospel Adventures™ is an informative and interactive virtual learning experience that is complete with five days of FREE curriculum in two formats and bonus materials. Kids learn about the foods, animals, people, and places of different countries with Gospel Adventures. The annual program has included "trips" to Peru, Mongolia, Thailand, Zambia, and India. Visit gospeladventures.org to sign up today!
We are excited to share that Gospel Adventures is heading to Australia in 2024! Be on the lookout for more information in the coming months about Gospel Adventures: Awesome Australia and how you can register your school, church, or home school.
Did you know?
- The official name of Australia is the Commonwealth of Australia. It includes 7,617,930 square kilometers (2,941,300 square miles) and is the sixth largest country in the world. It includes the Australian continent, Tasmania, and many other smaller islands.
- Art in Australia often draws on spiritual ideas and stories from dreamtime or dreaming.
- The Sydney Opera House was designed by Jørn Utzon from Denmark and built by an Australian team. It is the result of a worldwide design competition.
- There are six particular climates in Australia: equatorial, tropical, subtropical, desert, grassland, and temperate.
- Australia is a very developed, high-income country, ranked as the 14th largest economy in the world in 2022. Its income comes from mining, banking, agriculture, manufacturing, services, and international education.
- Altogether, Indigenous Australians make up about 3.3 percent (2016 Census) of the population of Australia.
- The Great Barrier Reef is a huge system of coral reefs, the largest in the world. There are almost 3,000 individual reefs in this system and 900 islands. You can even see the Great Barrier Reef from outer space.