Category: Mission News
CLWR’s Gifts from the Heart: Gift Ideas that Change Lives
CANADA – As stores begin to advertise for Christmas shopping, Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) is encouraging Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) members to remember the less fortunate this holiday season. To that end, CLWR has released its annual Gifts from the Heart catalogue (included in the September/October…
Sharing the faith in Turkey: An interview with the head of the Istanbul Lutheran Church
Rev. Ville Typpö is head of the Istanbul Lutheran Church and pastor of Istanbul Lutheran Congregation in Turkey. He joined Mathew Block, editor of The Canadian Lutheran (CL), for an interview by Skype. CL: Let’s start at the beginning: what is the history of the…
Attack on LCC’s Mission Centre in Nicaragua
by Mathew Block NICARAGUA – On October 11 at 7:00 p.m., Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Mission Centre in Chinandega, Nicaragua was attacked. Details emerged slowly over the past week, as regular communications were interrupted following the incident. At the time of the attack, Rev. Rufino Quintero…
Intensive PAT session in Ontario
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – The Pastors with Alternative Training (PAT) program had a special session at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario on October 2-5. Five students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds took an intensive course on the Lutheran Confessions, with…
Beaten for Jesus
by John Maina I have always marveled at the story of Jesus and the woman at the well, and how the Samaritan city of Sychar was reached (John 4:1-42). It seems a chance meeting at first, but Jesus had it planned all along. This woman…
International missions in the 21st century
Editor’s note: Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) recently released its 2013 Missions Newsletter, highlighting its various mission work around the world. Here Rev. Michael Keith attempts to explain why LCC does mission work the way it does. by Michael Keith The proclamation of the Gospel is something…
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