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When you have that sinking feeling
by Peggy Pedersen When I was a child taking swimming lessons, we had to pass a test at the end of the summer. We took all our lessons in the shallow end of the pool where you could stand with your head above water. The swimming test…
Toronto missionary brings Christianity to Muslim event
by James Morgan An ethnic event in the diverse Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is likely to involve a lot of products connected with the featured culture and the part of the world it represents. This was the case at the Pakistani Fair, held June 12…
Pentecost festival in Costa Rica
Many Lutheran congregations across Canada conduct the Rite of Confirmation on Pentecost. LCC’s mission in Costa Rica also took the theme of the festival to hold a Pentecost weekend celebration, Saturday June 12 in Cartago, San Jose. For the 45 people attending, LCC missionary Pastor…
Canadian and Thai Lutheran churches agree to working relationship
The Day of Pentecost, Sunday, June 12 provided an appropriate background for Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) and Thailand Concordia Lutheran Church (TCLC) to sign an Agreement of Relationship. The ceremony at Saint James Lutheran Church in Winnipeg followed the Sunday morning services at which TCLC president, Rev….
Seminaries set to harmonize operations
Prior to Lutheran Church–Canada’s national convention June 3-6 in Hamilton, Ontario, discussion across the church centred around the fate of LCC’s two seminaries—Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario and Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton. A resolution at the 2008 convention asked…
More a family gathering than a convention
by Ken Maher Synod is such a foreign sounding word that Gene Roddenberry once used to describe a race of aliens in one of his television shows. For many, synod sounds like it should be an alien concept. Sometimes even those of us in the…
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