Category: International News

August 24, 2009

Confessional Lutherans set to meet in Korea

WINNIPEG – President Robert Bugbee and his wife, Gail, left today (August 24) to attend the 2009 world conference of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) in Seoul, Korea. This is the president’s first ILC gathering since his election as president of Lutheran Church–Canada in 2008….

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July 2, 2009

Auxiliary names new executive director

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – After prayerful consideration, the Board of Governors for the International Lutheran Laymen’s League has selected Bruce Wurdeman as the new Executive Director for Lutheran Hour Ministries. Wurdeman, who currently serves as LHM’s Director of United States Ministries, will take the reins…

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June 2, 2009

Fishers of Fish

On June 1, Lutheran Hour Ministries’ Men’s NetWork will kick off its First Annual Men’s NetWork North American Fishing Tournament. The contest is open to all guys in the United States and Canada who wet lines in fresh water. There are ten categories of fish…

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March 24, 2009

Peace down under

Peace down under Francis Taman, a member of LCC’s Commission on Adjudication and Reconciliation is part of a team from Ambassadors of Reconciliation heading to Australia to conduct peacemaking seminars for the Lutheran Church of Australia. You can follow his blog.

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March 24, 2009

Kudos for Lutheran publisher

ST. LOUIS, Mo – Concordia Publishing House (CPH) has received certification as a Center of Excellence by Benchmark Portal and the Purdue University Center for Customer-Driven Quality. The award recognizes the CPH Customer Call Center as ranking in the top ten percent of 20,000 nationwide…

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February 17, 2009

Australian natural disasters

Rev. Dr. Mike Semmler, president of the Lutheran Church of Australia has expressed his thanks to President Bugbee for the prayer support Lutheran Church–Canada has offered as his country deals with both fires and floods. He wrote “We are praying for the victims whose lives…

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