Category: Mission News
Missions in Mozambique: The harvest is ready
MOZAMBIQUE – Mission efforts in Mozambique have reached a new milestone, as theological students there have issued a call to the Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brazil (IELB – Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil) for a full-time missionary pastor to come serve among them. The official…
Gifts from the Heart
WINNIPEG – Canadian Lutheran World Relief’s (CLWR) 2012 Gifts from the Heart program is already well underway. The September-October issue of The Canadian Lutheran included a catalogue insert highlighting ways Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) members can bless people in need through the annual CLWR fundraiser. “Purchasing…
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)…
Iran and the Gospel
Note: “Today around the world more than 200 million are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ. Each year, Christians in more than 130 countries stand in prayer with their persecuted brothers and sisters through the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP).”…
The state of Quebec Lutheranism
by James Morgan The political relationship between Quebec and the rest of Canada has often been a difficult one, with nationalist groups at various times asserting the province’s linguistic and cultural distinctiveness. The recent victory of the Parti Quebecois in the September provincial election will…
The missionary Luther
by Glenn Schaeffer “A current joke has to do with a new Martin Luther doll,” writes John Warwick Montgomery almost 40 years ago. “You wind it up and it just ‘stands there!” Montgomery asks, “Did Luther just stand there—at Wittenberg, at Leipzig, at Worms, at…
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