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Bishop’s Company 2020 Recap
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Bishop's Company for Mission was convened in an online virtual format! We are pleased to share this video combining a prepared presentation and the Bishop's remarks (beginning at 18:58). Together with leaders from across our Synod (and special guests from Martin Luther, Toronto;...Read More -
Bill C-6
Below is the text of a letter that Bishop Michael Pryse sent to The Honourable David Lametti Minister of Justice and Attorney General or Canada on November 12, 2020: Dear Minister Lametti: On behalf of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), I write to express...Read More -
Our Ministry Together – Candidacy
Grace and peace to you! As October draws to a close, I am pleased to share the second video in the Our Ministry Together project. Our Ministry Together is a series of twelve short videos intended to highlight and celebrate areas of our common mission across the Eastern Synod. Each...Read More -
Stronger Together (Pandemic Edition)
Welcome to Stronger Together, the Pandemic Edition! Stronger Together generally brings together youth and young adult leaders from Dioceses and Synods from across the country to build community, worship and learn about issues facing Youth Ministry. This year we have moved our gathering online. While we know meeting online can’t...Read More -
From Journey to Pivot
From journey to pivot: motion and change in congregational life By Henriette Thompson, October 15, 2020 We Christians are used to “journey” language. Our ancestors in the faith journeyed through the wilderness for 40 years; Jesus journeyed in the desert for 40 days. We are “people of the Way” (the...Read More -
What is there to be thankful for?
It's every year. Every year. Every year the big family get togethers. Every year the kids come home from university or community college, and banks and stores and businesses for the most part take the day off. Every year there are favourite foods and second helpings and third helpings that...Read More -
A Pandemic Update from Bishop Pryse
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to update you on recent conversations that I have had over the past two weeks with synodical leaders, Area Ministry Deans, rostered ministers and congregational leaders across the territory of our synod to discuss our experiences in resuming in-person worship. These conversations have...Read More -
Our Ministry Together
'Our Ministry Together' is a new series of short videos intended to highlight and celebrate areas of our common mission across the Eastern Synod. Each month we will spend time hearing from, seeing, and learning about our synodical ministries, many of which are funded through congregational benevolence. In our first...Read More -
A Strange Soup
I’ve always had a pretty sketch relationship with Labour Day weekends. I don’t do transitions particularly well and Labour Day, for me, is an ALL CAPS point of transition on the calendar. And so, each year on the first Monday of September, I find myself dining on the same strange...Read More
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