Category: Mission News
Lutheran Braille Workers-Canada winds down operations
CANADA – After 40 years of providing free Christian reading material for the visually impaired, Lutheran Braille Workers-Canada (LBW-C) is ceasing operations. The ministry in Canada first began at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Elmira, Ontario in 1974 in conjunction with the US-based Lutheran Braille…
CLMS supports LCC missions in 2014
EDMONTON — The Board of Directors of the Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) met January 30-February 2 in Edmonton to plan for the coming year. The major focus of the meeting was on selecting mission projects CLMS would commit to support throughout 2014. President Cliff…
Nicaragua celebrates the graduation of 29 new church workers
NICARAGUA – On January 25, the Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua (ILSN) celebrated the graduation of 29 new church workers from the Seminario Teologico Reforma Luterana in Chinendega. In total, 17 deaconesses and 12 pastoral students received their diplomas. The deaconesses will now begin a…
Visiting Honduras
HONDURAS – Following the recent Fourth Convention of the Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua (ILSN), President Robert Bugbee of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) flew to neighbouring Honduras to visit sites where the Nicaraguan church hopes to expand its outreach. The ILSN has had a missionary pastor,…
New church dedicated in Nicaragua
NICARAGUA – Church members and parish pastors of Lutheran Church–Canada, along with synodical president, Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee, were among the guests in attendance at the dedication of the Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua’s (ILSN) new church building in Telica, a rural community just outside…
CLWR receives $2 million from Canadian Government for Syrian refugees
JORDAN – Two grants totaling about $2 million from the Canadian government will allow Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) to help thousands of people living in northern Jordan. A $1.1 million grant is helping 10,000 Syrian refugees and Jordan citizens living in substandard housing this…
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