Category: National News
Is your congregation un-organized?
What can you do if you are without an organist and it’s time for worship? Share your story and register to win the Concordia Organist for your congregation. The Concordia Organist is a 31-CD set featuring every hymn from Lutheran Service Book beautifully played with…
July conventions tackle issues and change
Two Lutheran Church–Canada auxiliary organizations will hold conventions back-to-back in July. Lutheran Women’s Missionary League–Canada (LWMLC) meets in Ottawa July 9-12 and the International Lutheran Laymen’s League (Int’l LLL) holds its annual convention in Greensboro, North Carolina July 15-19. Lutheran Church–Canada’s president, Rev. Robert Bugbee…
More than a word of comfort
As Canada mourns the loss of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, military chaplains are called upon to provide comfort and counselling to grieving family members. In June, Lutheran Church–Canada chaplain, Captain Jason Kouri was assigned to provide pastoral care to the family of Cpl. Martin Dubé….
LCC benefits plan board hears good news
CALGARY – A more confident stock market is helping rebuild the funding short-fall in LCC’s pension plan according to a report from the plan’s consultants. Members of the Board of Managers heard the news at a meeting in Calgary, June 17-18. Despite this, the plan…
Synod summer office hours
The synod office will close Fridays at 1 p.m. from July 3 to September 4.
CLWR on the move
The international headquarters of Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) will move to Portage Place Mall in downtown Winnipeg. July 1, 2009. The new address is 302-393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 3H6. CLWR is leasing surplus space from the ELCIC. Renovations to the space are…