Category: Regional News

July 29, 2020

Good Shepherd Valleyview building fire

by Michelle Heumann VALLEYVIEW, Alta. – Late in the evening of July 26, 2020, the building belonging to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a historical storefront located on Main Street, caught on fire. Rev. Shiekh Lief Mauricio, who has been the pastor there since 2019, reports…

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July 28, 2020

Virtual VBS at Foothills Lutheran Church 

  by Miriam Winstanley  CALGARY, Alta. – Normally Foothills Lutheran runs two weeks of VBS, with many children coming who have attended the Preschool ministry of the congregation. In early January, the church staff put together an outline for this year’s program (this is the sixth year that the staff have written a program in-house) and began recruiting volunteers. Registration opened in early March,…

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July 20, 2020

Winnipeg congregation’s virtual VBS sees participants across all western provinces and Ontario

  by Beatrix Wolff WINNIPEG – In March of this year, our VBS team at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (Winnipeg, MB) realized that we had two choices for our summer Vacation Bible School: Cancel and resume in 2021 or host a Virtual VBS. God gave…

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June 19, 2020

LCC congregations vs. the “New Normal”

CANADA – The term “New Normal” has been tossed around a lot lately in light of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. So what does this “New Normal” look like? Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) congregations have been responding to the circumstances at hand, and a few…

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June 9, 2020

LLLC and Crew Ministries announce new partnership

by Joel Haberstock KITCHENER, Ont. – On March 9, 2020, Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada (LLLC) and CREW Ministries announced a new partnership that will allow CREW to provide the CDs recorded by their teams to LLLC to use in their ministries across Canada. This…

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June 8, 2020

LCC youth gatherings announce date changes

CANADA – The co-chairs of the Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) National Youth Gathering (NYG) and the co-chairs of the IMPACT Youth Gathering (formerly the ABC District Youth Gathering) have released a video talking about the upcoming change to the dates for both gatherings. At the beginning…

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