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St. Paul’s Journey to Transform Lives
From the KW Record KITCHENER — This time next year, people will be unpacking boxes and moving in to a new affordable housing project at Bridgeport Road and Lancaster Street. “A year from now it’s not going to be bricks and mortar, it’s going to be home,” said Dan Driedger,...Read More -
Congregational Redevelopment Services
In late 2014, Lutheran Homes K-W’s Strategic Initiative Committee, along with the Eastern Synod, worked to design, develop and test a pilot program to help congregations transform their assets into tools that could shape a renewed ministry and better serve the community. So far 13 congregations have engaged in this...Read More -
Bishop’s Company
Bishop’s Company for Mission – October, 2020. Please sign up for one of the sessions below. A Zoom link will be sent to you along with instructions as to how to join online. See you in October! https://youtu.be/JBFVUUG67Ew Register - October 14 @ 7pm Register - October 21 @ 1pm...Read More -
St. Philip’s Lutheran Church receives $37,500 to address COVID-19 food insecurity in Toronto
Emergency Community Support Fund grant provides fresh food to 75 families in need St. Philip's Lutheran Church is thrilled to receive a grant of $37,500 through United Way of Greater Toronto. This funding means St. Philip's can provide fresh food to 75 families once a week for two months through...Read More -
Entering The Amber Stage
Dear Colleagues and Partners in Ministry, Last night I participated in the final synod wide zoom meetings that have been convened over the past two weeks, bringing rostered and congregational leaders together to discuss preparing for a return to in-person worship. It has been a delight to speak with leaders...Read More -
A Person of Hope and Kindness
The time of COVID-19 has sped up what is a very fast-paced ministry on any given day, says Rev. Dan Bowyer, who serves as the chaplain at Trinity Village, Kitchener, a long-term care centre that is a ministry of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, full-communion...Read More -
Filling a Fresh Produce Gap
Impacts of COVID-19 have been immense. On the top of the list for too many Canadians is greater food insecurity. We at St. Philip’s Lutheran Church noticed the needs for food growing in the neighbourhood around us. A nearby food bank had closed, the calls to the church for food...Read More -
Bethesda Sharecroppers
On July 8, a group of members from Bethesda Lutheran Church gathered at a distance at our Sharecropper Growing project to share a blessing for a good harvest. The crop, 50 acres of winter soft red wheat, will probably be harvested about two weeks on. The site is on the...Read More -
Confirmation in a Pandemic
July 12 2020 was a special day for the South Grey Bruce Lutheran parish of Mildmay, Normanby and Neustadt as the congregation witnessed 6 young people affirm their baptism promise. After studying for two years, these young people and their families were not going to let something like a pandemic...Read More -
Prayer in the time of COVID
This past fall, our church began a four year deep dive into some of our primary Christian faith practices. Our National Bishop invited us to join her in a new four-year emphasis on Living our Faith, as together we pray, read, worship and love. From September 2019 until September 2020, ELCIC members were...Read More
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
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