The Canadian Lutheran Posts

October 7, 2011

Thanksgiving video from Ukraine

LCC Missionary Alexey Navrotsky and the video team at Alpha & Omega Student Society produced a 12-minute Thanksgiving video for Lutheran Church-Canada. The video includes highlights from the visit of a team from Grace Lutheran Church in Drumheller, A&O summer camps, the opening of the seminary in Odessa in August…

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October 6, 2011

Seminary agreement evident in fall classes and meetings

The results of signing a Memorandum of Understanding between Lutheran Church–Canada’s Board of Directors and two seminaries in June are now evident to students, faculty, and staff in St. Catharines and Edmonton. This fall students at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario…

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October 4, 2011

The heart of thanksgiving

by Peggy Pedersen Although the Apostle Paul writes in Thessalonians 5:18 “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” a harder saying is what he writes in Ephesians 5:20. There he says we should be “giving…

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October 3, 2011

One year on line for Lutheran magazine

The goal of providing timely, relevant news and information from a Lutheran perspective reached a milestone October 1 as www.canadianlutheran.ca celebrated its first anniversary. Launched as an online version of Lutheran Church–Canada’s award-winning print magazine The Canadian Lutheran, the site includes news stories, features as…

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September 30, 2011

Donations and special events support famine relief

by James Morgan The Bible verse from Psalms “For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever,” (Psalm 9:18) describes well the outstanding response to Canadian Lutheran World Relief’s (CLWR) appeal for support to aid those…

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September 29, 2011

Iranian pastor faces execution

Christians around the world are waiting anxiously to hear if the Iranian government followed through on its execution sentence for a Christian pastor. Reports from Iran through Christian Solidarity Worldwide  said Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani Nadarkhani faced execution Wednesday if he did not recant his faith. A court…

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