Category: Mission News

October 31, 2014

Nicaraguan children celebrate Reformation Day

NICARAGUA – October 25th was a day of great joy for the church in Nicaragua as around 200 children and 20 adults gathered at LCC’s mission centre in Chinandega to celebrate the 497th Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. The theme of the event was taken…

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October 30, 2014

New Nicaraguan Mission Plant in 2015

NICARAGUA – On October 21 Rev. Leonardo Neitzel, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Executive for Missions and Social Ministry) met in Managua to discuss the creation of a new mission plant. Present for the meetings were Rev. Edmund Auger (LCC’s new regional mission overseer) and Rev. Dr….

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October 27, 2014

Nicaraguan church work students examined in lead-up to ordination, consecrations

NICARAGUA – October 23 marked the second-last set of interviews in Nicaragua for ten vicars (candidates for pastoral ministry) and 17 deaconess-candidates, in the lead-up to their ordinations and consecrations for full-time ministry. Each student was examined individually by Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) and Lutheran Church…

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October 17, 2014

CLWR hosts events on humanitarian work in the midst of conflict

CANADA – Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) is hosting a wine and cheese reception and meet-and-greet with Bishop Munib A. Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Bishop Younan, who also serves as President of the Lutheran World Federation, will…

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October 14, 2014

LWMLC meets in Winnipeg, presents cheque for LCC missions

WINNIPEG – On October 3, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League-Canada (LWMLC) met for a series of meetings at Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) synodical office in Winnipeg. The event was noteworthy in bringing together not only current leaders of LWMLC, but also past presidents for strategic planning. During…

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October 1, 2014

New protocol agreement for Cambodia

CAMBODIA – A new protocol agreement signed in September by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cambodia (ELCC), Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC), and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) will guide the next three years of confessional Lutheran mission and ministry in Cambodia. President Vannarith Chhim of the…

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