Category: Regional News

May 16, 2011

From pulpit to cockpit

Beginning June 1, a Lutheran Church–Canada pastor will make the transition from parish pastor to pilot for an organization focused on bringing the Gospel to First Nations people in northern Canada. Rev. Bill Ney, currently senior pastor at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Stony Plain, Alberta has accepted God’s call…

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May 14, 2011

Regina congregation launches French-language worship service

by Mathew Block    REGINA – Like many outreach projects, this one began by asking a simple question: what gifts and abilities does our congregation have that we aren’t currently using? Now, more than a year after first asking that question, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church …

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May 13, 2011

Lutheran evacuees say Manitoba flood crisis now in God’s hands

by Keven Drews PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE — Members of a Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) congregation are on “pins and needles,” hours before the provincial government breaches a local dike and floods their properties, maybe even their homes. Manitoba’s Assiniboine River is experiencing the worst flooding in…

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May 12, 2011

Pastor coaches, mentors and witnesses on the basketball court

PLUMAS, Man. – The senior boys’ basketball team at William Morton Collegiate (WMCI) in Gladstone enjoyed a boost when Zion pastor Rev. Mark Smith stepped in to join coach Cale Dunbar. “He’s very experienced and he’s really turned the team around,” said Dunbar, “so the…

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April 29, 2011

Easter Sunrise Service for intercultural congregation

ETOBICOKE, Ont. – A candlelight procession down Islington Avenue marked the beginning of an intercultural Easter Sunrise Service conducted in Urdu and Hindi, April 24. The celebration began at the intersection of Albion Road and Islington Avenue at 5:45 a.m. Pastor Greg Johnson (Our Saviour,…

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April 28, 2011

Saskatchewan flood hits Lutheran camp

By Keven Drews They’ve got some cleaning to do at Saskatchewan’s Camp Lutherland. Camp officials and volunteers will have to wash walls and scrub floors after floodwaters surrounded two buildings recently. “It’s very frustrating,” said Phyllis Pantel, camp manager, of the flood Tuesday. “[The flood’s]…

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