Category: West Region News

July 12, 2018

New Names for LCC Districts

At the meeting of Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Board of Directors on April 26, 2018, the board voted to approve a motion to change the names of its three regions (currently districts) to reflect the new structure of the organization. As of January 1, 2019, the…

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July 10, 2018

Flooding in Grand Forks BC: Volunteering with Samaritan’s Purse May – June 2018

By Heather Shilton Christ Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, BC For four weeks in June of this year, I had the privilege of working with Samaritan’s Purse, doing disaster relief following catastrophic flooding in Grand Forks, British Columbia. The experience was profoundly satisfying, empowering and humbling….

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June 25, 2018

From the President, ABC District – A prescription for Canada’s Christians

Downtown Winnipeg BIZ By Glenn Schaeffer What Canada needs is salt and light. Jesus says to us, “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13, 14). Salt impedes decay. Salt preserves and seasons. Light is necessary for life….

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November 2, 2017

500th anniversary of the Reformation marked in Alberta Legislature

EDMONTON – Dr. Richard Starke, MLA for Vermilion-Lloydminster and member of First Lutheran Church, Lloydminster, made a Member’s Statement in the Alberta Legislature on October 31, 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. “Five hundred years ago today an unknown German priest in…

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October 4, 2017

PAT Program celebrates first Regionally Remote pastor

HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. – On September 12, 2017, Redeemer Lutheran Church in High Prairie, Alberta celebrated the ordination and installation of Rev. Terry Goerz, the first graduate with a regionally remote ministry focus from Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Pastors with Alternate Training (PAT) program. At seventy…

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September 14, 2017

Our Family in Christ

by Glenn E. Schaeffer Every congregation I have been a part of, whether as a lay member or pastor, has been my family. It was in the presence of my church family that my faith was born and confirmed. Over the years, it has been…

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