Category: West Region News
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…
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…
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…
Webcast from Vancouver
The Installation Service of Rev. Dr. Leonardo Neitzel, LCC’s new mission executive, will be webcast Sunday, October 4 at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m.ET). Watch at LCC VideoNet
Lutheran scholar at University of Calgary
LCMS Lutheran, Uwe Siemon-Netto, a journalist for 52 years, Lutheran scholar and founding director of the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life (CLTPL) will speak at the University of Calgary’s 2009 Peter Craigie Memorial Lecture, Tuesday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Husky…
Into the field with confirmation
Over the last number of years Grace Lutheran in Calgary has taken an alternative approach to scheduling adult confirmation classes. Since the work and home-life schedules of participants have become more complicated due to evening work commitments, travel schedules and scant family time, it became…