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Building Relationships
The Eastern Synod Mission committee meets twice a year under the leadership of Bishop Michael Pryse. At their fall meeting, the committee reviews grant applications and decides which ministries will get financial support for the following year. This year over $300,000. has been granted to support 52 missions and projects....Read More -
Welcome to Peace, Pickering
“We have new people almost every Sunday in the worship service. Some of them start coming regularly, some occasionally and some may come only once,” says Hilla Lahtinen, who serves the congregation together with her husband Ronnie Smith as a ministry team. One of our growing congregations, if not...Read More -
Stained Glass Windows @ St. Peter’s, Ottawa
Eastern Synod Council member Bonnie Weppler took these pictures of the baby sweaters that the women of St. Peter’s Lutheran in Ottawa made for the baby bundles which will be packed up on Mothers’ Day for CLWR distribution. “This is the first time that I have seen the women hang...Read More -
Building Bridges Across Age and Cognitive Barriers Through Art
For those with dementia in Long Term Care, choices are often made for them – when they get up, what they eat, what they wear. With the Opening Minds through Art (OMA) program at Trinity Village Care Center, Kitchener, they can again make their own choices – where they place...Read More -
New Partnership
The closing of one of our congregations, St. Philip’s, Kitchener has led to new beginnings and a new partnership with Anishnabeg Outreach. Anishnabeg Outreach is a charitable organization dedicated to helping First Nations, Metis and Inuit people with training and employment services. The former St. Philip’s will become the home...Read More
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Member church of the Lutheran World Federation