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BC Mission Boat Society announces full-time Executive Director
PARKSVILLE, B.C. – The BC Mission Boat Society (BCMBS) has announced that they have engaged Rhonda Kelman as the agency’s full-time Executive Director. Kelman had previously been appointed Interim Director in 2016. “Rhonda’s work over the last four months as our Interim Director has shown…
Cambodian Lutherans plan to re-launch church body
CAMBODIA – Cambodian Lutherans have applied with the government to register a new church body under the name Cambodia Lutheran Church (CLC). Final registration documents were submitted to the Kompot authorities for approval on January 23, 2017. Cambodian Lutherans had previously been registered under the…
Nicaraguan women benefit from LWMLC mentorship
NICARAGUA – In 2014 under the guidance of Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Rev. Dr. Leonardo Neitzel, the Sister to Sister program was conceived. The vision of the Sister to Sister program is that members of Lutheran Women’s Missionary League–Canada (LWMLC) mentor and encourage the women of…
Silence raises questions of faith
by Ted Giese Martin Scorsese’s Silence is an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel of the same name. It is the story of two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Father Rodrigues and Father Garrpe, infiltrating Japan nineteen years after the authorities had banned Christianity and enacted a…
2017 Convention Deadlines
CANADA – As we near the due date for recommendations for nominations for elections to Lutheran Church–Canada’s boards and offices at the upcoming 2017 synodical convention, it’s helpful to look ahead to other important related deadline dates. January 31, 2017 – Recommendations for Nomination March…
Book of Concord available again in French
CANADA – For the first 400 years after its publication, the complete Book of Concord was unavailable in French. Finally in 1980 it was released not by or even necessarily for the Lutheran Church, but primarily as a document of academic and historical interest under…
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