Category: International News
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….
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…