All posts tagged Missions

May 15, 2013

Reach out Canada: The countdown is on!

WINNIPEG – In a little more than six weeks hundreds of LCC Lutherans will gather for Lutheran Church—Canada’s first-ever national evangelism conference: Reach Out Canada (July 5-7 at the Canad Inns Destination Centre – Fort Gary in Winnipeg). Reach Out Canada is designed to help…

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March 26, 2013

Stewardship in Southeast Asia: Abundance in the Lord’s storehouse

by Leonardo Neitzel The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cambodia (ELCC) is aware of local financial challenges which might arise if it continues to rely solely on external funding for its mission and ministry. ELCC’s President, Rev. Vannarith Chhim, and several of the church’s pastors and…

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March 12, 2013

Lutheran Presence and Witness in Cambodia: Lord, let thy kingdom come

by Leonardo Neitzel The official language of Cambodia is Khmer; its religion, Buddhism. The country is still in recovery, in some ways, from Pol Pot’s massive killings of his own people in the 1970s. Today, the economy is in steady progress, and people seem very…

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February 21, 2013

CLMS to raise more than $120,000 for missions in 2013

WINNIPEG – The Board of Directors of Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) met February 7-9 in Winnipeg to plan for the coming year. A major topic of discussion was what mission projects CLMS would commit to support over 2013. “As our society met this year,”…

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January 14, 2013

2012 missions in retrospect.

by Leonardo Neitzel As we begin a New Year through the grace of God, we cannot help but raise our voices in gratitude for the blessings He has shared with His Church in 2012. Like God’s people in the Old Testament, we acknowledge, “The LORD…

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October 19, 2012

The state of Quebec Lutheranism

by James Morgan The political relationship between Quebec and the rest of Canada has often been a difficult one, with nationalist groups at various times asserting the province’s linguistic and cultural distinctiveness. The recent victory of the Parti Quebecois in the September provincial election will…

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