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December 20, 2019

‘Tis the Season: A Time for Giving, a Time for Children

by Thomas Kruesel ‘Tis the season… It’s an interesting statement about Christmas. It sums it up nicely without really saying anything about it. It can have positive connotations or negative ones, depending on the context. If we are standing in a long line up in…

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December 19, 2019

Christmas Services 2019

CANADA – Travelling during the Christmas holidays this year, and looking for a place to worship? Visit lutheranchurch.ca/find to locate a Lutheran Church–Canada congregation near you. Many congregations have special service times listed for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. If the congregation you’re looking…

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December 18, 2019

Fifth anniversary of rebooted University of Calgary campus ministry

CALGARY – Foothills Lutheran Church was originally named Varsity Hill Lutheran, and the first pastor, Rev. Paul Schmidt, was called in 1965 to be the part-time University of Calgary chaplain. The Lutheran students’ club had a designated room in the parsonage, with regular meetings there…

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December 17, 2019

Christmas Presence

by Mathew Block The Christmas story as it appears in St. John’s Gospel is not the version with which we are most familiar. There are no mentions here of Mary and Joseph, no angels singing to shepherds in the fields, no baby being wrapped in…

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December 12, 2019

Lutheran Church–Canada financial update (Nov-Dec 2019)

Download the latest financial update from Lutheran Church–Canada as a bulletin insert here. CANADA – The mission of Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC) is to organize, equip, and motivate its members to confess, proclaim, and give witness to the saving work of Jesus Christ, to the glory of…

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December 11, 2019

LCC launches new Moving Assistance Fund

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada is launching a new Synod-Wide Moving Assistance Fund (MAF) to assist congregations in paying moving expenses when they call a rostered church worker or request a church worker such as a DPS Intern or Vicar. The Moving Assistance Fund not only…

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