Category: Regional News
From sorrow to jubilation: Easter at Grace Lutheran
DRUMHELLER, Alta. – Holy Week at Grace Lutheran Church included a dramatic Good Friday service that involved the “burning” of sins. An Easter sunrise service at the site of Drumheller’s annual Passion Play concluded the week joyously. On Good Friday the congregation gathered for a sombre…
Wheels for worship benefit Oromo congregation
by Keven Drews WINNIPEG — Getting to the church on time will soon be a lot easier for dozens of new Canadians from Africa. Members of Lutheran–Church Canada’s (LCC) Red River Circuit recently purchased a 16-person minibus for members of an Oromo-speaking congregation which worships…
Youth explore Higher Things
by James Morgan Mount Forest, Ontario was the appropriately named location for the first Higher Things Day Retreat in Canada. With the theme “The Law, the Gospel…and the Rest of Your Life!” the March 18th event at St. John’s Lutheran Church, presented by the Hanover…
The Lutheran Hour meets Alberta’s oilsands
Ft. McMurray, Alberta – Ever since the population of this northern Alberta area exploded with oil production, the Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada’s local membership has dreamt of broadcasting The Lutheran Hour’s Gospel message into the community. The dream becomes reality Sunday, March 6 when…
A wealth of Lutheran history from Western Canada
EDMONTON — The Lutheran Historical Institute holds hundreds of thousands of archives – everything from Martin Luther’s 16th century writings to the personal correspondences of farmers and their families in the Edmonton area. Luther’s works 1567: This eight-volume collection was donated by the Reiner family…
Ontario volunteers share God’s love in Nicaragua
by James Morgan For many children in Canada, vacation Bible school at a local church is a summer tradition, and it’s quickly becoming one for more than 700 children in Leon, Nicaragua, thanks to help from eleven volunteers from Redeemer Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Ontario….
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