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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….
Missionary sends encouraging message
As Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) gathers in Calgary this weekend for its annual meeting, LCC missionary Rev. Alexey Navrotsky has sent a video report expressing the thanks of Lutherans in Ukraine for the society’s support. The video shows scenes of various projects supported by…
Australia braces for another natural disaster
ADELAIDE, Australia – An e-mail from Linda Macqueen, editor of The Lutheran, the magazine of the Lutheran Church of Australia, warns of another looming natural disaster for the northeast part of the country, Cyclone Yasi. She writes: “Even those of us far from the direct…