Category: Mission News
CLMS approves more than $118,000 for LCC mission projects
by James Morgan Christ Our King Lutheran Church (Missassauga, Ontario) was the location of the 2012 annual meeting of the Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS). Held February 11-12, the event saw the election of Rev. Clifford Haberstock as the new president of CLMS, succeeding Terry Goerz….
A vision for serving the blind: Braille ministry founder passes on
by Ian Adnams Family friends and members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Elmira, Ontario gathered Saturday, January 28 to give thanks to God for the life and service of Frieda Fink, founder of Lutheran Braille Workers – Canada. She was 93 years old. For…
LCC’s missionaries in Central America report
by Leonardo Neitzel In early January, President Robert Bugbee and I had a very special meeting with the Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) missionaries and their spouses working in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras. We met with these five missionaries and their wives shortly after the close of…
Lutheran Church–Canada at work in Costa Rica
Rev. Edmundo Retana and his wife Deaconess Betty Retana pose with the congregation in Cartago, Costa Rica by Leonardo Neitzel Officially, the Republic of Costa Rica has 4.64 million inhabitants. Some estimates, however, put the population closer to six million, with nearly two million of them being Nicaraguan…
New Spanish VBS resources delight Nicaraguan church workers
by Jane Ford From December 12-18, 2011, pastors and deaconesses from Iglesia Luterana Sínod de Nicaragua (Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua) (ILSN) completed a test run of a new free Spanish-language vacation Bible school (VBS) program. The process began almost a year ago when veteran…
Downtown church connects with community
“Why are you doing this for us?” Members of Historic St. Paul’s (Kitchener, Ont.) who volunteer at its new outreach often hear and joyfully answer that question as they offer free food and winter clothing to people affected by poverty. Recently the downtown congregation has…