Category: General
Mount Olive’s 70th anniversary
REGINA – In 2023, Mount Olive Lutheran Church celebrated its 70th anniversary, and the congregation thanks and praises God for 70 years of blessings. A logo and memento was designed to commemorate the anniversary, which was made on a 3D printer by Jean and Joy…
Pension Plan Merger Update
CANADA – Worker Benefit Services reports that on September 21, 2023, the Alberta Pension Regulator approved the transfer of Defined Benefit (DB) pension assets and liabilities held in the LCC Pension Plan to the CAAT pension plan (“Plan Merger”). The transfer of DB assets and liabilities…
Whole Armour of God retreat
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – The weekend of November 17-18, 2023, saw the gathering of members from parishes in the Northland Circuit for a retreat at Camp Kinasao, just northwest of Prince Albert. The theme for the retreat was taken from Ephesians 6:11—“Put on the whole…
Theology of Sound
by Timothy Teuscher “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom…” (Colossians 3:16a). It was these words of St. Paul, as well as similar passages in Holy Scripture, that informed my previous column on the subject…
RMMCs hold meetings
LCC’s three Regional Mission and Ministry Councils (RMMCs) held meetings in September 2023. The primary focus of each meeting was the discussion of congregation and ministry applications for financial assistance for 2024. Meeting on September 21 (West) and September 30 (Central and East), the RMMCs…
Praying for Seminary Education in LCC
CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) two seminaries are providing congregations with new prayers focused on seminary education. The Boards of Regents of Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS – Edmonton) and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS – St. Catharines, Ontario) held joint meetings in January 2024, during…