Category: National News

September 14, 2012

LCC launches 2012 missions newsletter

WINNIPEG – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has released a newsletter highlighting the mission activity of some of its Auxiliaries and Listed Service Organizations. “LCC is privileged to have numerous partners to support it in its mission work both here at home and around the world,” the…

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September 12, 2012

Video: International Lutheran Laymen’s League convention sermon

SASKATOON, Sask. – At the end of July, nearly 600 people from across North America converged on Saskatoon for the 94th International Convention of the International Lutheran Laymen’s League. President Robert Bugbee was invited to preach at the convention’s opening worship service. He chose for…

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September 11, 2012

World Lutheran leaders to meet in Canada

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario – For the first time in its nearly twenty-year history, the International Lutheran Council (ILC) will meet in Canada for its triennial conference. From September 16-21, church leaders from 33 confessional Lutheran church bodies around the world will gather in Niagara Falls,…

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August 27, 2012

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…

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August 18, 2012

LCC’s first treasurer called home

On the afternoon of August 16, Ken G. Werschler passed on to glory following a brief stay in hospital. Ken was Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) first treasurer, and served four terms in that position before retiring in 1999. He is survived by his wife Dot and their…

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July 25, 2012

A letter from the Discipleship Task Force Comittee

At the 2008 convention, Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) adopted Resolution 08.02.05 which called on the president to appoint a task force to “Provide Biblically-Based Materials and Resources on Christian Discipleship.” In February 2012, the Discipleship Task Force Committee met for the first time in Winnipeg. The…

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