The Canadian Lutheran Posts

December 22, 2009

Avatar: the birth of a new visual age in filmmaking

By Andrew Craig It is always hard to take a movie at face value when you are virtually bombarded with hype for a film. The studio has sunk so much money into Avatar that the advertising has been practically crammed down our throats. Comparisons to…

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December 19, 2009

St. Paul’s gears up for sesquicentennial

December 18, 2009 By: Kaite Edmonds ObserverXtra The congregation and staff at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elmira are working months in advance to prepare for their 150th anniversary celebrations coming up next October, and to start the celebrations off right they are publishing…

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Report from Southeast Asia warms hearts in Winnipeg

December 18, 2009

Report from Southeast Asia warms hearts in Winnipeg

WINNIPEG – The bitter cold weather was a far cry from the warm humid air of Bangkok, Thailand, when volunteer missionary in Southeast Asia Rev. Dr. Leonard Harms visited Lutheran Church–Canada’s office December 17 and 18. Dr. Harms, retired LCC mission executive, met with President…

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December 17, 2009

News Briefs: Long-time staff member retires

Following two months of leave for health reasons, Worker Benefit Plans director, Inge Schroeder has retired. She is the longest-serving member of Lutheran Church–Canada’s staff, joining the new synod’s office team in 1989 as administrative support. She soon focused her talents on assisting in the…

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December 17, 2009

Trinity Richmond gearing up for Olympic outreach

RICHMOND, B.C. – A Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) congregation in metro Vancouver says it needs help welcoming the world to the February 2010 Winter Olympics. Ron Hindle, a deacon at Trinity, Richmond, said his church needs volunteers because it will run several outreach programs and is…

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December 16, 2009

Seminary education still a “lively concern”

WINNIPEG – Stakeholders in the deliberations and findings of LCC’s Task Force on Cost-efficient, Sustainable, Seminary Education can avoid an adversarial process by participating in “regular, candid discussions,” says the group’s chairman. “Even if the final recommendations of the task force do not meet with…

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