Category: Mission News
PAT Program celebrates first Regionally Remote pastor
HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. – On September 12, 2017, Redeemer Lutheran Church in High Prairie, Alberta celebrated the ordination and installation of Rev. Terry Goerz, the first graduate with a regionally remote ministry focus from Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Pastors with Alternate Training (PAT) program. At seventy…
Fifty years of blessings for the Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada
CANADA – As the Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada marks its 50th anniversary in 2017 it is celebrating and giving thanks to God for the men and women of the Lutheran Laymen’s League who have made it their objective to assist the Lutheran Church of…
Seminary education in Ukraine continues
by Edward G. Kettner In late April and early May I had the privilege of returning to Ukraine to teach once again at the Lutheran Seminary in Odessa. This was my sixth trip to Ukraine in the last twenty years and my fifth time teaching….
Beautifying the Church: Loving our Nicaraguan brothers and sisters
by Harold Ristau We praise God for the generous donations by Canadian Lutherans in building churches for congregations in Nicaragua. It is a tremendous blessing that our brothers and sisters can worship with roofs over their heads. But while much attention has been paid to…
Central Alberta team builds Mission Centre wall
NICARAGUA – On January 10, a team of 18 people, mostly from central Alberta, headed to Nicaragua for a mission trip. Planning for the trip had begun about a year prior, when, with the help of Dr. Neitzel, Lutheran Church–Canada’s Mission Executive, a building project…
Government of Canada to match donations for famine relief
CANADA – At the end of May, the Government of Canada announced that for every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered Canadian charities between March 17 and June 30, 2017, it will contribute an equivalent amount to the Famine Relief Fund. More than…
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