Category: West Region News

February 19, 2010

Olympic event at Bethlehem Lutheran draws award-winning singer

VANCOUVER — An award-winning, Vancouver-based, singer-songwriter will perform at Bethlehem Lutheran at 7 p.m. Friday as part of the church’s 2010 Winter Olympic Celebrations. Laurell Hubbick has released three albums and performed hundreds of concerts across Canada and the United States. In 2001, the popular…

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February 12, 2010

Olympic welcome at Richmond B.C. Lutheran congregation

By Keven Drews RICHMOND, B.C. — Images of the Olympic torch relay beamed across a massive screen, boxes of hotdogs buns lined the hall, and computers hummed in an Internet Café Friday shortly after Trinity Lutheran Church opened its doors to the world. Until February…

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February 9, 2010

Lutheran congregation sets sights on more than Olympic gold

RICHMOND, B.C. – As athletes, coaches, support teams and thousands of winter sports fans converge on Vancouver for the opening of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Friday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond B.C. is making final preparations to welcome and host hundreds of guests at…

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January 27, 2010

Olympic torch run outreach

WESTBANK, B.C. At 4:30 p.m. Monday, January 25, the Olympic Torch arrived in the city and Redeemer Lutheran Church was ready! Members of the congregation set up a tent and offered free coffee and hot chocolate to the hundreds of people who came to cheer-on…

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January 25, 2010

Devotions, sermons now available for Winter Olympics

VANCOUVER – Lutherans volunteering, participating in or supporting in prayer the mission activities at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics can now draw upon two new inspirational resources. The Alberta-British Columbia District of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has published daily devotions and Lenten sermons – all with…

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October 7, 2009

Outreach on the run

DRUMHELLER, Alberta – When members of Grace Lutheran Church discovered that 400 students and staff from the junior/senior high school were planning to make seven laps around the church Friday, September 25 as part of a circuit for the Terry Fox Run, they decided to…

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