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Give a gift that matters with Gifts from the Heart
CANADA – Every year, Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) offers Canadians the opportunity to change lives at Christmas through the Gifts from the Heart program. The Gifts from the Heart catalogue contains gifts “that symbolically represent the work of CLWR,” promotional material explains. “Gift purchases…
Re-Forming Our Church: Restructuring Update December 2015
by William R.A. Ney The Commission on Constitutional Matters and Structure (CCMS), having been given a strong mandate from the last Synodical Convention and all three District Conventions to put forward a plan to restructure Lutheran Church–Canada, has made a major move forward in that…
Canadian physicians face challenges to Freedom of Conscience
CANADA – Medical doctors across the country continue to face challenges to their freedom of conscience as a number of the provincial colleges which regulate medicine in Canada consider new regulations that would restrict physicians’ freedom on moral issues like abortion and euthanasia. The policies…
LCC staff partner with CLWR and ELCIC to sponsor refugee family
UPDATE: We just found out they will be a family of four: a couple with two children. The paperwork to get the sponsorship moving has begun. WINNIPEG – The national staff from Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC), along with Central District staff, are partnering together with the…
Advent Devotions from LAMP now available
CANADA – LAMP (Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots) has released their Advent devotional for 2015. “The Advent Season is the beginning of the church year and brings another chance to share our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with the rest of the world as…
Restructuring process moves forward; Stahlke appointed CCMS Consultant
WINNIPEG – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Commission on Constitutional Matters and Structure (CCMS) met November 16 and appointed Rev. Dr. Les Stahlke of Edmonton as its consultant for the restructuring process now unfolding in LCC. Dr. Stahlke, CEO of GovernanceMatters, has participated in similar ventures for…
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