Category: Education News

June 17, 2020

LCC congregations coordinate, offer virtual VBS options Canada-wide, all summer long!

ONLINE – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) congregations across the country have come together to coordinate free Virtual VBS options for families all summer long – No matter where you live! An email will be sent out to all congregations with details, relevant links, as well as…

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May 30, 2020

First calls for 2020’s graduating pastors, vicarage assignments

ONLINE – Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS – Edmonton) and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS – St. Catharines, Ontario) announced their first calls for pastoral candidates and vicarage placements on May 29, 2020, via respective live-streamed events, in keeping with government regulations due to the COVID-19…

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May 13, 2020

COVID-19: LCC Seminaries to Announce First Calls Online

ONLINE – As a result of government regulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries have announced public services will be cancelled while first calls for pastoral candidates and vicarage placements will be announced online this year. Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS – Edmonton)…

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April 28, 2020

Joint CLS/CLTS Faculty Retreat at Bragg Creek

  ALBERTA –  For the first time in over a dozen years, the faculties of both Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) seminaries  – Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) – met near Bragg Creek, Alberta, on faculty retreat from March 9-12, 2020. Significant…

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March 23, 2020

Seminary classes move online-only during pandemic

CANADA – The classes of Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries have moved online-only in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario announced on March 13 that face to face classes would be cancelled as of March 16, 2020, following…

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February 20, 2020

Boards of Regents meet in Edmonton

EDMONTON – On February 4-5, 2020 the Boards of Regents from Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS), St. Catharines, and Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS), Edmonton, held their annual joint meeting at CLS. The two boards met together with reports given on each seminary by presidents Rev….

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