Category: West Region News

February 8, 2017

Outreach to Conflict: Upcoming reconciliation training sessions

CALGARY – It was a good goal, one to which every member of the outreach committee had agreed. The theology was not in debate: “Go and make disciples.” And the theory was sound: create an environment that unchurched people would find comfortable to allow for…

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February 2, 2017

Sabbath Conference 2017

MULHURST, Alberta – Non-pastoral church workers and volunteers are invited to take part in the 2017 Sabbath Conference. The Sabbath Conference in a professional church workers conference open to Lutheran Church–Canada church workers and volunteers across the nation, taking place February 28-March 3, 2017 at…

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February 2, 2017

BC Mission Boat Society announces full-time Executive Director

PARKSVILLE, B.C. – The BC Mission Boat Society (BCMBS) has announced that they have engaged Rhonda Kelman as the agency’s full-time Executive Director. Kelman had previously been appointed Interim Director in 2016. “Rhonda’s work over the last four months as our Interim Director has shown…

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January 26, 2017

Jennifer Jade Kerr nominated for 38th Annual Covenant Awards

EDMONTON – Jennifer Jade Kerr has been nominated for the 38th Annual Covenant Awards—her fourth nomination since 2012. Kerr, a member of Lutheran Church–Canada, has been nominated for Collaboration of the Year along with Mike R. Schuster for their song “Nobody Loves Me Like You.”…

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January 18, 2017

500 Years of Reformation – Conference in Edmonton

EDMONTON – The Canadian Centre for Scholarship and the Christian Faith is encouraging people to sign up soon for their sixth annual conference—“500 Years of Reformation.” The conference will take place March 24-25 at Concordia University of Edmonton. Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb, one of the…

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December 21, 2016

Not Embarrassing but Amazing

by Glenn E. Schaeffer When I was pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Barrie, Ontario, the children and youth, with the assistance of some adults, presented a Christmas pageant entitled, “This is So Embarrassing!” The pageant starts with a youth complaining about…

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