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CREW Ministries reactivates summer team program
CREW Ministries has announced that they are returning to summer team ministry after a year sabbatical. CREW Ministries’ chairperson, Michael Schutz, said that a plan is underway to recruit and train summer teams to assist churches with Vacation Bible School and camp programs for summer…
The voice walking beside: Supporting those out in church
by Vic Esperanza When I was first approached to write an article for those in our church who struggle with sexuality, I had to give it a little bit of thought and a lot of prayer. Partly because I knew I would be writing an article…
The voice inside: Who is listening?
by Kim Goebel Every couple of years we see articles published and discussion arising about homosexuality and the Church. With the recent acceptance of practicing gay and lesbian ministers in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) reiterated its stance on the…
Congregation supports local MP in human life definition debate
by Ian Adnams A Kitchener, Ontario Member of Parliament wants his colleagues to study a 400-year-old human rights issue and he’s got the support of a Lutheran church in his constituency. Stephen Woodworth, MP for Kitchener Centre and lawyer by vocation discovered that a Canadian…
Discipleship task force organizes in Winnipeg
A task force to develop Biblically-based materials for Christian discipleship met at Lutheran Church—Canada’s (LCC) office in Winnipeg February 17 to organize and begin its work. Although called for by the 2008 Synod Convention, this task force could not be implemented during the previous three years due to the large…
A well-spent Lent
FROM THE ARCHIVES: by Victor Parachin and Ian Adnams “It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually,” observed the British mystic Oswald Chambers. In earlier times, Christians, especially monks, nuns and others living in church institutions practiced various spiritual disciplines. They believed their work…