Lutheran Church Canada

With our world-renowned health care system now endorsing euthanasia as a 'solution' to human suffering, we will be undermining the creativity and resolve that is needed to confront some of the most complex cases of care. We are, in effect, imposing the institutional taking of human life as a solution to human suffering. LIFE NEWS LCC President Timothy Teuscher is a signatory to an open letter by Canadian religious leaders opposing Bill C-7. Bill C-7 seeks to expand acc...ess to euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. The letter is clear that there is no wish to increase pain and discomfort for the dying, with the signatories instead calling for a robust palliative care system available to all Canadians as a much more effective response to suffering and to protecting the sacred dignity of the human person. The full letter can be viewed via the article here: https://www.canadianlutheran.ca/lcc-joins-letter-opposing-/

: More photos from our Central Regional Pastor, Rev. David Haberstock! : About 10km NE of Melville, SK was Ascension Lutheran Church, Brewer, SK. It was a congregation of Polish folks from Silesia. Being small they never had their own pastor, and disbanded in 1964, joining Zion in Melville. The building was dismantled in 1980, but the cemetery remains.

An update from Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines on their recent call to Rev. Stephen Preus.

EDUCATION NEWS For more than a decade Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines (lately, working with Concordia Lutheran Seminary) has offered LCC congregations a liturgical wall calendar. Though primarily meant to assist altar guilds, it can be used by anyone interested in keeping track of: Liturgical festivals (three-year and one-year lectionary series)... Parament/Vestment colours Download & print your own copy here: https://drive.google.com//1WZqrnQy3RBl1nFnbIzh6invEhu/view

MISSION NEWS Roberto Jose at the Mission Centre in Chinandega provides an update in light of Hurricane Iota, translation and prayer by Rev. Mark Smith. I am pleased to inform you that the hand of God was protecting our beloved Nicaragua. The hurricane hit the Caribbean Coast fairly hard, and part of the regions of Jinotega, Matagalpa, and Rivas were impacted by minor flooding. Some hills collapsed and caused landslides, which caused the death of at least six people. In th...e region of León and Chinandega, it caused losses of crops. Somotillo and Villa Nueva were flooded and the road was completely covered with water. But after the storm comes the calm. Our pastors and deaconesses and mission workers are safe and sound, with God’s help. Since the rains throughout the country have decreased, the rivers are returning to their normal flow. We finally saw the beautiful sun warming us again, which we had not looked at for fifteen days. At last the calm arrived, but this season has not ended yet, and the weather forecast alerts us of another possible hurricane that will follow the same route as the previous one. Only God can help us. https://www.canadianlutheran.ca/hurricane-iota-impacts-nic/

for our future pastors and deacons!

: More photos from our Central Regional Pastor, Rev. David Haberstock! : Zion Lutheran Church (Yorkton, SK) in the Assiniboine Circuit. She is pastored by the Rev. Andrew Cotrill.

LCC welcomes a new administrative assistant to the team, Angela Honey! "[My husband and I] were both excited by the opportunity for me to work for Lutheran ChurchCanada and after much prayer decided to make the move to Winnipeg, Angela said. While we are sad to leave our seaside friends we look forward to the many opportunities that God will provide in this new adventure. https://www.canadianlutheran.ca/lcc-welcomes-new-administr/

#ThrowbackThursday to LCC's National Youth Gathering! Featuring a bunch of Youth-erans... I mean, young Lutherans... from 1998