Category: Mission News
CLMS to raise more than $120,000 for missions in 2013
WINNIPEG – The Board of Directors of Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) met February 7-9 in Winnipeg to plan for the coming year. A major topic of discussion was what mission projects CLMS would commit to support over 2013. “As our society met this year,”…
Celebrating Christmas twice: Ukraine’s story
UKRAINE – This past December 25 was, as it is every year, a day of rejoicing for Christians around the world as they celebrated the birth of Christ the Saviour. But in Ukraine, the festivities came twice: once on December 25 and again on January…
2012 missions in retrospect.
by Leonardo Neitzel As we begin a New Year through the grace of God, we cannot help but raise our voices in gratitude for the blessings He has shared with His Church in 2012. Like God’s people in the Old Testament, we acknowledge, “The LORD…
Missions in Mozambique: The harvest is ready
MOZAMBIQUE – Mission efforts in Mozambique have reached a new milestone, as theological students there have issued a call to the Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brazil (IELB – Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil) for a full-time missionary pastor to come serve among them. The official…
Gifts from the Heart
WINNIPEG – Canadian Lutheran World Relief’s (CLWR) 2012 Gifts from the Heart program is already well underway. The September-October issue of The Canadian Lutheran included a catalogue insert highlighting ways Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) members can bless people in need through the annual CLWR fundraiser. “Purchasing…
LCC on the road: Growth in Ukraine
by Robert Bugbee Beloved sisters and brothers in Canada, After flights from Winnipeg to Toronto, Toronto to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Vienna, and finally Frankfurt to Odessa, I arrived in Ukraine November 7. Bishop Viktor Graefenstein of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU)…
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