Category: Columns
LCC on the Road: Haitians working together
by Robert Bugbee Dear friends, I write these lines on a bright, warm Monday morning from Gonaives in northern Haiti. I am making a very quick “get acquainted” trip here together with Rev. Dr. Albert Collver III. He is the Director of Church Relations and…
What does this mean? Dropping the “Son of God”
This is my Son… the Christ? Over the past few months, Wycliffe Bible Translators (the largest Bible translation organization in the world) and its partner SIL International have come under fire for producing Muslim-friendly translations of the Scriptures which replace references to the “Father,” “Son,”…
LCC’s missionaries in Central America report
by Leonardo Neitzel In early January, President Robert Bugbee and I had a very special meeting with the Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) missionaries and their spouses working in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras. We met with these five missionaries and their wives shortly after the close of…
Lutheran Church–Canada at work in Costa Rica
Rev. Edmundo Retana and his wife Deaconess Betty Retana pose with the congregation in Cartago, Costa Rica by Leonardo Neitzel Officially, the Republic of Costa Rica has 4.64 million inhabitants. Some estimates, however, put the population closer to six million, with nearly two million of them being Nicaraguan…
New President in Nicaraguan Partner Church
by Robert Bugbee Dear friends, It has been an encouraging (and, oh yes, warm!) few days here at the Third Convention of the Iglesia Luterana Sínodo de Nicaragua (ILSN) (Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua), which ended Sunday at the Mission Centre Chapel near Chinandega. Delegates elected Rev. Marvin…
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