Category: LCC On the Road

March 26, 2013

Stewardship in Southeast Asia: Abundance in the Lord’s storehouse

by Leonardo Neitzel The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cambodia (ELCC) is aware of local financial challenges which might arise if it continues to rely solely on external funding for its mission and ministry. ELCC’s President, Rev. Vannarith Chhim, and several of the church’s pastors and…

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March 12, 2013

Lutheran Presence and Witness in Cambodia: Lord, let thy kingdom come

by Leonardo Neitzel The official language of Cambodia is Khmer; its religion, Buddhism. The country is still in recovery, in some ways, from Pol Pot’s massive killings of his own people in the 1970s. Today, the economy is in steady progress, and people seem very…

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March 11, 2013

LCC on the road: The tomb is empty

by Mathew Block I returned yesterday to Canada from a whirlwind tour of the Holy Land with The Canadian Church Press. As I’ve written earlier, our first days were spent visiting Caesarea, Nazareth, Capernaum, and Galilee. On Wednesday and Thursday we turned our attention to…

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March 6, 2013

LCC on the road: Travels in the Holy Land

by Mathew Block ISRAEL – I write this post from Tiberias, a city beside the Sea of Galilee. I am currently traveling in Israel with the Canadian Church Press on a week-long tour of the Holy Land. The event, which is sponsored by the Israel Government…

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March 4, 2013

Lutherans among Canadian Church Press tour of Holy Land

ISRAEL – Members of The Canadian Church Press (CCP) arrived in Israel March 4 for a week-long tour of the Holy Land, and a strong contingent of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) members was among them. Mathew Block (editor of The Canadian Lutheran magazine), Ian Adnams (Vice President of…

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November 13, 2012

LCC on the road: Growth in Ukraine

by Robert Bugbee Beloved sisters and brothers in Canada, After flights from Winnipeg to Toronto, Toronto to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Vienna, and finally Frankfurt to Odessa, I arrived in Ukraine November 7. Bishop Viktor Graefenstein of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU)…

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