The Canadian Lutheran Posts
The End is near! Or is it?
by Edward Kettner What is going on in the world? The news is filled with strange events—birds falling from the sky for no apparent reason; masses of dead fish washing ashore. It seems this winter has been extreme, with record- setting snow falls (called in…
Fresh support for LCC missions
Thanks to a volunteer mission organization, sixteen Lutheran Church–Canada mission projects may become a reality in 2011. At its annual general meeting in Calgary, February 6, Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) chose to support 16 projects from home and overseas challenging its members and donors…
Canadian church represented at Ethiopian conference
Two pastors from Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) will attend an international Theological and Mission Conference conducted by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), an Oromo Lutheran church body. Rev. Dr. Leonardo Neitzel, LCC’s mission executive and Rev. Marvin Ziprick (Bethel, Sherwood Park, Alberta) are travelling…
Lutheran relief agency continues support for Haiti
WINNIPEG – A year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Canadian Lutheran World Relief continued its support of the Caribbean county by sending a fully-loaded 40-foot shipping container. The January 21 shipment contained everything from quilts to medical equipment and 2000 We Care bags. The supplies…
Funding … and the face of Jesus
by Robert Bugbee In the devotional book What Jesus Means to Me, Herman Gockel writes of a Christian mother who visited her son in his university dormitory room. It grieved her to see the suggestive pictures he had on his wall. But she said nothing….
Australian cyclone aftermath
“Thanks be to God” – Yasi takes no lives by Linda Macqueen With thanks to God, the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) rejoices that no lives were lost in the greatly feared Category 5 tropical cyclone Yasi, which crossed the coast around midnight last night….