Category: West Region News

March 22, 2021

Martin Luther’s Candy Farm

CHILLIWACK, B.C. – It has been difficult to find creative ideas for children’s ministry during the pandemic, so on October 30, 2020, St. Paul’s Lutheran hosted an outdoor event called “Martin Luther’s Candy Farm,” where children got to have fun collecting treats and hearing about…

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February 22, 2021

Dust You Are

by Robert Mohns Years ago, I read a remarkable manuscript in which the author imagined stories tied to a particular piece of land. I read that story, set not far from the North Saskatchewan River in the Edmonton area, on a late spring day, sitting…

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January 5, 2021

Outdoor services at historic church in Torrington

  TORRINGTON, Alta. – On a quiet peaceful acreage, just a few miles southeast of Torrington, stands an old country church surrounded by a grove of tall evergreens. Zion Lutheran was formed in 1906 and moved to several spots until it found its dwelling place…

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September 18, 2020

50 Years of Blessings and Miracles in the Ministry

“An Unlikely Candidate” — 50 Years of Ministry by Ken Rodeman June 28, 2020, was a day full of celebration and rejoicing at Zion Lutheran Church in Golden Spike as I celebrated fifty years in ministry. Rev. Keith Hoveland led the worship service and Regional…

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July 29, 2020

Good Shepherd Valleyview building fire

by Michelle Heumann VALLEYVIEW, Alta. – Late in the evening of July 26, 2020, the building belonging to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a historical storefront located on Main Street, caught on fire. Rev. Shiekh Lief Mauricio, who has been the pastor there since 2019, reports…

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July 28, 2020

Virtual VBS at Foothills Lutheran Church 

  by Miriam Winstanley  CALGARY, Alta. – Normally Foothills Lutheran runs two weeks of VBS, with many children coming who have attended the Preschool ministry of the congregation. In early January, the church staff put together an outline for this year’s program (this is the sixth year that the staff have written a program in-house) and began recruiting volunteers. Registration opened in early March,…

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