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LCC’s President: Pray for Boston
BOSTON – Lutheran Church-Canada’s (LCC) President Robert Bugbee has pledged prayers for those affected by the April 15 bombings in Boston. “Dear friends in Canada,” he writes, “I’m in Sydney, Australia on my way to the convention of our partner church, and just received word…
Stewardship in Southeast Asia: Abundance in the Lord’s storehouse
by Leonardo Neitzel The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cambodia (ELCC) is aware of local financial challenges which might arise if it continues to rely solely on external funding for its mission and ministry. ELCC’s President, Rev. Vannarith Chhim, and several of the church’s pastors and…
German pastor in LCC partner church honoured for work among Iranian converts
GERMANY – German Christian magazine ideaSpektrum has named Rev. Dr. Gottfried Martens “Pastor of the Year” for 2012, an honour given in recognition of his work over the past five years caring for Iranian converts to Christianity. The growing number of Iranian converts to Christianity…
Lutheran Presence and Witness in Cambodia: Lord, let thy kingdom come
by Leonardo Neitzel The official language of Cambodia is Khmer; its religion, Buddhism. The country is still in recovery, in some ways, from Pol Pot’s massive killings of his own people in the 1970s. Today, the economy is in steady progress, and people seem very…
LCC on the road: The tomb is empty
by Mathew Block I returned yesterday to Canada from a whirlwind tour of the Holy Land with The Canadian Church Press. As I’ve written earlier, our first days were spent visiting Caesarea, Nazareth, Capernaum, and Galilee. On Wednesday and Thursday we turned our attention to…
LCC on the road: Travels in the Holy Land
by Mathew Block ISRAEL – I write this post from Tiberias, a city beside the Sea of Galilee. I am currently traveling in Israel with the Canadian Church Press on a week-long tour of the Holy Land. The event, which is sponsored by the Israel Government…
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