Category: Feature Stories

June 11, 2022

LCC reelects President Teuscher, elects new Vice-President

EDMONTON – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has reelected Rev. Dr. Timothy Teuscher to a second term as President without opposition. The same day also saw the election of Rev. Michael Schutz as the church’s new Vice-President. President Teuscher was first elected in 2017. Since becoming LCC…

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June 11, 2022

LCC’s 12th Regular Convention begins, welcomes new congregations into membership

EDMONTON – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) 12th Regular Convention began on June 10, 2022, gathering under the theme “Stand Firm in the Faith” (1 Corinthians 16:13). The convention runs until June 13, 2022. The first session began with the induction of voting delegates and of special…

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May 2, 2022

I believe in the Resurrection of the Body.

by Thomas M. Winger Like many in my generation, I spent a lot of time in childhood watching classic cartoons like Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny. Their violence was sanitised compared to today’s offerings, and when characters were flattened by a falling piano their…

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April 26, 2022

Ukraine update from SELCU pastor, aid fund update from LCC

  UKRAINE – The following update is provided by Rev. Sergey Bevz, pastor of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s partner church the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU) and was written on April 12, 2022: For the last six weeks the doors of Living Water Lutheran…

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April 20, 2022

Witnesses to the Resurrection: Honouring the Women at the Tomb

by Kelly Klages The angel said to the women: “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen…” (Matthew 28:5-6a) The women at the tomb, who had come to anoint Jesus’ body after His…

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April 14, 2022

The most powerful weapon is not nuclear: Jesus and the War in Ukraine

by Roland Syens I had the privilege of serving Lutheran Church–Canada as her missionary to Ukraine from 1993-2005. After receiving a call back in Canada to serve as an Assistant Pastor in Kitchener, Ontario, the congregation there graciously allowed my wife, Anita, and me to…

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