Category: Headline

August 3, 2020

Greyhound: Heavy Action, Light Characters, and the Lutheran Connection

by Ted Giese Greyhound, Tom Hanks’ adaptation of the 1955 C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, was set to sail into theatres June 12,, 2020, and then pushed back to June 21. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was finally launched into the seas of…

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July 29, 2020

Good Shepherd Valleyview building fire

by Michelle Heumann VALLEYVIEW, Alta. – Late in the evening of July 26, 2020, the building belonging to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a historical storefront located on Main Street, caught on fire. Rev. Shiekh Lief Mauricio, who has been the pastor there since 2019, reports…

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July 28, 2020

Virtual VBS at Foothills Lutheran Church 

  by Miriam Winstanley  CALGARY, Alta. – Normally Foothills Lutheran runs two weeks of VBS, with many children coming who have attended the Preschool ministry of the congregation. In early January, the church staff put together an outline for this year’s program (this is the sixth year that the staff have written a program in-house) and began recruiting volunteers. Registration opened in early March,…

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July 22, 2020

National Youth Gathering committee announces new dates, speaker for 2022 NYG

  by Michelle Heumann Due to the effects of the COVID-19 situation, the 2021 National Youth Gathering, In Not Of, has been rescheduled to 2022. Now the 12th LCC NYG will be in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba from July 15-19, 2022, and a…

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July 20, 2020

Winnipeg congregation’s virtual VBS sees participants across all western provinces and Ontario

  by Beatrix Wolff WINNIPEG – In March of this year, our VBS team at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (Winnipeg, MB) realized that we had two choices for our summer Vacation Bible School: Cancel and resume in 2021 or host a Virtual VBS. God gave…

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July 16, 2020

Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) distributes food hampers, soap, essentials to Haitians amid pandemic

by Andrew Jackson HAITI – The Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) has been making great strides in adopting a new focus: Educating our Haiti brothers, laymen, to fill the role as spiritual leaders within their communities, in light of the lack of pastoral presence in…

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