The Canadian Lutheran Posts
The 2010 benefit plans listening tour
After conducting four of a planned 16 focus groups looking at LCC’s pension plan, retirement benefits and part-time employee benefits, Worker Benefit Plans (WBP) executive director Dwayne Cleave is encouraged with the level of discussion and input. A three-member team including Mr. Cleave, plan design…
Brothers in arms say farewell at blessing service
PEMBROKE, ONT. – Of the thousands of soldiers Major Kevin Klein has blessed during his career as a military chaplain, none perhaps has been as emotional as the blessing of his younger brother. During a recent service at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pembroke, Ont.,…
Church prepares to receive new workers
WINNIPEG – Members of Lutheran Church–Canada’s Council of Presidents (COP) met in Winnipeg, April 26 to finalize the placement of six new pastoral candidates, seven vicars, four directors of Parish Services and two Lutheran teachers. The council first met with representatives of LCC’s seminaries and…
Pastor embraces role as Armed Forces chaplain
WINDSOR, Ontario – A local man installed Sunday as a Canadian Forces chaplain says he’s taking on this role to speak to a flock beyond his own. Rev. Gerson Flor was installed Sunday morning at First Lutheran Church on Giles Boulevard. He’d served the church in the…
President of Lutheran Church–Canada to receive honorary doctorate from US seminary
WINNIPEG — Rev. Robert Bugbee, president of Lutheran Church–Canada will be awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree–honoris causa by Concordia Theological Seminary (CTS), Fort Wayne, Indiana, at its Commencement Exercises, May 21, 2010. President Bugbee will also deliver the commencement address. “I am humbled by this honour,”…
Isuzu truck carries Christian message in Germany
BERLIN — Members of a Lutheran congregation in Berlin, Germany raised the profile of their congregation and its food bank, recently, by consecrating a new truck. The congregation, part of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (Selbständig Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche – SELK), a partner church of Lutheran…