Category: Feature Stories

February 1, 2013

Registration for National Youth Gathering now open

WINNIPEG – Registration is now open for Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) National Youth Gathering in Winnipeg. From July 5-9, youth will gather at the University of Manitoba for Stand Firm: See the Salvation of the Lord! The event is “designed to encourage and build up LCC…

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January 15, 2013

Celebrating Christmas twice: Ukraine’s story

UKRAINE – This past December 25 was, as it is every year, a day of rejoicing for Christians around the world as they celebrated the birth of Christ the Saviour. But in Ukraine, the festivities came twice: once on December 25 and again on January…

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January 14, 2013

2012 missions in retrospect.

by Leonardo Neitzel As we begin a New Year through the grace of God, we cannot help but raise our voices in gratitude for the blessings He has shared with His Church in 2012. Like God’s people in the Old Testament, we acknowledge, “The LORD…

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December 24, 2012

A greeting for the Festival of Christmas to All God’s People in Lutheran Church-Canada

Treasured sisters and brothers across the land! The Lord puts a special picture into our hands. He permits us to celebrate Christmas in a northern country. This festival falls during the darkest time of the year in our part of the world, when days are…

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December 20, 2012

A stone along the way, an angel in the sky

  by Robert Bugbee The spot is in open country. It’s near Stotternheim, a village close to the city of Erfurt in former East Germany. A stone marks the place. A few trees surround it, and a sign tells the story to tourists. It’s where…

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December 13, 2012

Out of the darkness

by Vern Vansteenburg In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In…

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