2026 Convention Workbook now available

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) released online on April 2 the Workbook for its upcoming Synodical Convention. The Convention Workbook can be downloaded from the convention website at: www.lutheranchurchcanada.ca/synod-convention-2026/.

Whether you are a voting or advisory delegate, advisory representative, official visitor, or guest, the 2026 Convention Workbook is an important resource for the Thirteenth Regular Convention of Lutheran Church–Canada, which is scheduled to meet from June 12-15 at the Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre in Winnipeg. In addition to reports from Synod’s officers, board, commissions, regions, affiliated seminaries, auxiliaries, and other organizations, this workbook contains profiles of candidates who have been nominated for the various positions that will be elected (including President, Vice-President, and Regional Pastors), and, of course, overtures.

Resolutions Committees, consisting of convention delegates, are appointed by the Synod President to consider the submitted overtures and prepare resolutions based on the various matters the overtures address. While performing a helpful service, these Resolutions Committees do not have the final word. Voting delegates may accept their proposed resolutions, decline them, amend them, or even go back to one of the original overtures if the assembly so desires. In the final weeks before the convention, the proposed resolutions from the Resolutions Committees will be sent as a separate publication to all delegates.

Per the LCC Handbook, “Any Member and any lay delegate to the Convention wishing to express comments on reports and overtures appearing in the Convention workbook may submit these at least seven (7) weeks prior to the Convention to the secretary, who shall transmit them to the appropriate convention committee for consideration.” Responses and comments to reports and overtures can be directed to the secretary at convention@lutheranchurch.ca. The deadline for responses is April 24, 2026.

While the secretary of the Board of Directors of LCC has the ultimate responsibility for the publication of this Convention Workbook, this task is carried out with the valuable assistance of our staff at the Synod’s office in Winnipeg: Iris Barta (who is serving as the 2026 convention manager), Angela Honey, Vira Askin, and Ingrid Willey.

The theme for this 2026 convention is “Together One: One Lord, One Faith, One Body.” Drawn from our Lord’s word to us in Ephesians 4:4-6, it also builds on the theme of the work we have done together over the last four years. There is one God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and no other. He has called us into the one Christian faith and has graciously given us the gift of faith that clings to Christ alone for salvation. We are indeed one body as His people as we gather around His Holy Word and Sacraments which nourish and sustain us in this one faith in the one Lord.

Adapted from a Forward by LCC Vice-President Michael Schutz, on behalf of President Timothy Teuscher

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