Category: National News
LCC joins Catholics, Evangelicals, and other Canadian faith leaders in declaration on assisted suicide and euthanasia
CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has signed a joint declaration on assisted suicide and euthanasia along with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), member churches of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), and other Canadian faith leaders. LCC is an observer member of the…
Synodical Convention Date Change
CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Board of Directors has announced that the date of the 2017 Synodical Convention will be changed from June to October 2017. A final date has not yet been chosen but LCC’s Board of Directors has affirmed that they are not…
French Reformation hymn contest
CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada’s Comité francophone liturgique invites authors, translators, poets and musicians to submit a hymn in French rooted in Martin Luther’s Small Catechism Baptism text for the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the 95 theses. The submissions may be an original text …
Reforming Our Church
by Paul Schallhorn Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is about to change.This year, LCC’s three districts meeting in convention called on Synod to restructure. In other words, they’re asking LCC to change the way it’s built. What exactly we look like in the end depends to a…
CCMS begins work on restructuring synod
WINNIPEG – From August 31 to September 1, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Commission on Constitutional Matters and Structure met in Winnipeg to begin discussions related to the restructuring of synod. Earlier this year, each of LCC’s three districts voted in convention to request the CCMS research…
New school year underway at LCC’s two seminaries
CANADA – Classes are well underway at Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries, and enrollment is up. An opening service was held at Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton on September 8, with President James Gimbel preaching. Several weeks later, on September 21, CLS formally installed Rev….
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