Category: News

September 16, 2010

Government extends match deadline for Pakistan

The federal government announced it is extending the timeframe for matching donations to flood relief in Pakistan to October 3. Millions of people still remain homeless as a result of flooding which covered approximately one-fifth of the country. Canadian Lutheran World Relief is working through…

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September 15, 2010

Victoria congregation provides pastor training in Mozambique

KAPASSENI, Mozambique – Eight local candidates for the Lutheran ministry finished their first training session in a remote region of Mozambique thanks to fundraising and organizing efforts of a Vancouver Island Lutheran Church–Canada congregation.  The 32-module extension course came from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil,…

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September 15, 2010

Hymnal becomes Canadian snowball

One year after its release in October, 2009, Liturgies et cantiques luthériens (LCL) is in its second printing and enjoys widespread use among francophone Lutheran churches around the world.  Upon publication, congregations in Quebec and Haiti used the hymnal. Soon after, at a Lutheran church leadership training workshop…

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September 10, 2010

LCC numbers for 2009 continue troubling trend

WINNIPEG – Like every annual report, the 2009 statistics for Lutheran Church–Canada show gains and losses, and offer good news and bad. Continuing a multi-year trend, baptized membership (all people on a congregation’s membership list) in LCC congregations declined 1.7 percent in 2009 to 68,735….

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September 10, 2010

International Lutheran Laymen’s League hosts Spirit-driven event

OMAHA, Neb. – “Spirit Driven” (2 Tim. 1:7) was the theme embraced by the 93rd International Convention of the International Lutheran Laymen’s League (Int’l LLL) which attracted more than 1000 attendees from the US and Canada.

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September 10, 2010

Lutheran Foundation reports increased gifts so far this year

WINNIPEG – Meeting May 28-29, the Board of Directors of Lutheran Foundation Canada (LFC) learned that in the first four months of 2010, the foundation established 13 deferred gifts totalling $2,912,935—a figure well beyond 2009’s annual total of $2,302,245. Congregations form the largest recipient category,…

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