All posts tagged Haiti Lutheran Mission Society

December 13, 2024

CLTS professor emeritus called to glory

Surrey, B.C. – On November 24, 2024, Rev. Dr. John R. Wilch—professor emeritus at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario—was called to glory. He was 90 years old. Dr. Wilch was born on May 19, 1934, in Columbus, Ohio, to Rev. Andrew…

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January 6, 2022

LCC Missions: What’s in the works?

ONLINE – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) Missions webpages are expanding! More information on both LCC’s International and Domestic Missions is being added to the website on an ongoing basis, in an effort to enhance awareness of the work we do together as a synod across the…

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June 28, 2021

The gift of sun-power in Haiti

by Andrew Jackson “Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.” Ecclesiastes 11:7 The sun is an important part of life on our planet. It provides light to work in the day, it feeds plants, and it even gives…

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July 16, 2020

Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) distributes food hampers, soap, essentials to Haitians amid pandemic

by Andrew Jackson HAITI – The Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) has been making great strides in adopting a new focus: Educating our Haiti brothers, laymen, to fill the role as spiritual leaders within their communities, in light of the lack of pastoral presence in…

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March 24, 2020

HLMS: Providing Haitians with theological education

HAITI – In late January 2020, the Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) held its second round of theological training for members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH). Thirty lay leaders attended the conference, which covered the Augsburg Confession and was taught by Rev….

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July 10, 2019

Pastoral Training in Haiti through HLMS

by Wally Bogusat and Harold Ristau The Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) has recently struggled with the following question: “How much time, energy and money should be devoted to physical needs of Haitians versus the spiritual needs?” In the past, HLMS has tended to focus…

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