The Canadian Lutheran Posts

February 7, 2011

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…

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February 4, 2011

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….

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February 3, 2011

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….

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February 2, 2011

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…

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February 1, 2011

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…

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January 31, 2011

East and west seminary boards respond to task force

by James Morgan Following a joint meeting, January 21 in St. Catharines, the Boards of Regents at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, and Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton released a joint response to the members of the LCC Board of Directors’…

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