Category: Regional News

February 9, 2010

Lutheran congregation sets sights on more than Olympic gold

RICHMOND, B.C. – As athletes, coaches, support teams and thousands of winter sports fans converge on Vancouver for the opening of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Friday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond B.C. is making final preparations to welcome and host hundreds of guests at…

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January 27, 2010

Olympic torch run outreach

WESTBANK, B.C. At 4:30 p.m. Monday, January 25, the Olympic Torch arrived in the city and Redeemer Lutheran Church was ready! Members of the congregation set up a tent and offered free coffee and hot chocolate to the hundreds of people who came to cheer-on…

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January 25, 2010

Devotions, sermons now available for Winter Olympics

VANCOUVER – Lutherans volunteering, participating in or supporting in prayer the mission activities at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics can now draw upon two new inspirational resources. The Alberta-British Columbia District of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has published daily devotions and Lenten sermons – all with…

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January 5, 2010

Ontario congregation begins 175th year

Historic St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener kicked off its 175th Anniversary year, Sunday, January 3.  Here is a report from CTV News

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December 19, 2009

St. Paul’s gears up for sesquicentennial

December 18, 2009 By: Kaite Edmonds ObserverXtra The congregation and staff at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elmira are working months in advance to prepare for their 150th anniversary celebrations coming up next October, and to start the celebrations off right they are publishing…

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November 13, 2009

Lutherans honour Canada’s fallen

PORT ROWAN – A federal cabinet minister joined Lutheran Church–Canada pastors for a pre-Remembrance Day service inside a local community centre Sunday, November 8. Diane Finley, federal minister of human resources and skills development and LCC Padre Jason Kouri, 12e Régiment blindé du Canada, were…

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