The Canadian Lutheran Posts
One year after the quake, one-million Haitians still live in tents
by Keven Drews Haiti still faces a long road to recovery, one year to the day after an earthquake devastated this tiny Caribbean nation. Reconstruction efforts may be taking place, but rubble still litters the country and more than one million people remain homeless and…
Ontario volunteers share God’s love in Nicaragua
by James Morgan For many children in Canada, vacation Bible school at a local church is a summer tradition, and it’s quickly becoming one for more than 700 children in Leon, Nicaragua, thanks to help from eleven volunteers from Redeemer Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Ontario….
Recording project successful despite late launch
by James Morgan It was a perfect start for Perfect Holiday. Tara Lyn Hart’s new Christmas CD, released just in time for Christmas 2010, not only has begun raising money for Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario, but it has also returned…
Concordia High School to move Edmonton campus, expand programs
EDMONTON — One of the city’s oldest private Christian high schools plans to expand its university-preparatory programs and attract more international students thanks to some massive changes. Concordia High School (CHS), which is associated with Lutheran Church–Canada, announced plans January 7 to move to a…
Sure-fire predictions for 2011
by Peggy Pedersen Every year at this time people make predictions and resolutions. The predictions are always false prophecies and speculations, some based on trends or data, some not, but within all of them is fear of what the future holds. As Christians, we do…
Christmas in the Afghan desert
by Chaplain Harold Ristau Normally, pastors have the delicate task of encouraging people to come to church without sounding too pushy. This can become tiring after many years of ministry. The one exception is Christmas. Providing Christmas services for our Canadian troops in Afghanistan was…