Category: Mission News
Baptismal blessings in Honduras
HONDURAS – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) missionary work in Honduras continues to bear fruit. Missionary Douglas Aguilar reports that, this August, a group of girls was received into LCC’s congregation in the city of Olanchito through holy baptism. “Praise be to our God!” writes Rev. Aguilar….
Website for youth and young adults launched
For years, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League—Canada (LWML-Canada) has offered a devotional for recent high school graduates entitled Now What?. When LWML-Canada decided in 2011 it was time for an update, they approached the original booklet’s author Lynn Gergens. While the new project–Glimpses of Grace—includes the…
Nueva Vida Women’s Artisanry Initiative
COSTA RICA – The Nueva Vida Women’s Artisanry Initiative is based in Cartago, Costa Rica. Operating since 2011, the initiative gathers local community women in a holistic approach, through involvement in Bible study, prayer, worship, fellowship, and the production and distribution of handicrafts. The initiative…
LCC on the road: “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”—Theological education in Nicaragua
by Leonardo Neitzel NICARAGUA – It has been amazing to see the fields of sandias (watermelons) in Nicaragua these days, even though it has not rained much this year. As one drives on the highways, large, grown-up watermelons are easily spotted, lying in the fields…
Commisioning full-time chaplain
by Chuck Cooley Penticton, B.C. – Rev. Capt. Vic Morris, Pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church in Penticton, B.C. was Commissioned as a Missionary Chaplain of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) for the Canadian Armed Forces in a Farewell and Godspeed Service June 24. Padre Morris accepted an…
Sharing the Gospel through Spanish comic books
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Special fundraisers and donations recently made it possible for Immanuel Lutheran Church to purchase 10,000 copies of Un hombre llamado Jesus: El vivió entre nosotros (“Who is this man called Jesus? He lived among us”). This Spanish-language 128 page booklet brings the stories and…