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Remembering the departed faithful
by Robert Bugbee For all the saints who from their labours rest… In the old days, especially in villages and out in the country, on your way into church on Sunday, you walked past gravestones. The church had its own cemetery. Sometimes you noticed upturned…
Giving is up, membership down according to 2010 stats
The annual “snapshot” of Lutheran Church–Canada is now fully developed with the compilation of 2010 statistical information from about two-thirds of LCC’s congregations. Declining membership trends continue at about 2 percent, however attendance shows an increase. Of the 67,154 baptized members, about 18,243 gather at…
Luther graphic novel is a winner despite shortcomings
by Andrew Craig Edutainment is a word we’ve come to know around my house as my wife and I try to be discerning parents, limiting our child’s TV viewing so she gets something out of what she watches. Hence, she watches things like Sesame Street, Dora…
New board members installed
WINNIPEG– After meeting for two days, new members of Lutheran Church–Canada’s 2011-14 Board of Directors attended Saint James Lutheran Church, Sunday, October 23 for their official installation. Their terms of office began September 1. Guest preacher, LCC’s president, Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee based his sermon…
New board brings fresh insight to church issues
The first meeting of Lutheran Church–Canada’s Board of Directors for the 2011-2014 triennium convened in Winnipeg, October 21-22. Three lay persons and one pastor elected at the June 2011 convention joined the board. The meeting began with an orientation by President Robert Bugbee based on…
Noted French Lutheran theologian was friend of LCC
A vibrant voice for Lutheranism in the French-speaking world is now silent. Rev. Dr. Wilbert Kreiss, former president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church–Synod of France and Belgium, was attending a conference of the Lutheran Heritage Foundation in Africa and died in his sleep October 24….