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Storylines: "Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow"

Diaconal Ministry - August

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Campus Ministry - September

Early Diaconal Ministers in Canada served in churches as Parish Workers, Directors of Christian Education, Youth Ministers, Church Secretaries and more. They also served in society in roles such as social workers and therapists, Diaconal Ministers have been engaged in ministry in myriad ways and in 1991 diaconal ministry was officially validated within the ELCIC.   In this picture, Sister Anne Keffer is shown with her Diaconal vestment. In this storyline Anne and other Diaconal Ministers provide insights into the life of Deacons and Deaconesses from earliest foundations in North America to emerging ministries. 

Diaconal Ministries

Campus Ministry - September

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Campus Ministry - September

Photo of Anne Anderson and Thirdspace by Mirko Petricevic, Canada Lutheran 35:6 Sept 2020.

This storyline is the most multi-media storyline in the project to date. Three Campus Ministers (Stephen Larson, Ken Kuhn and Karen Kuhnert) have Zoom interviewed twenty Campus Ministry leaders who experienced Campus Ministry across Canada in the last seven decades. This storyline includes first hand stories from participants in Campus Ministry, the Lutheran Student Movement (LSM) and Lutheran Students Association (LSA). The stories reach back to the foundations in Lutheran Campus Ministry  with Don Voigts, Paul  Bosch and John Vedell and it also moves forward to 2022 and COVID online ministries.

Campus Ministry

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Norm Antler's Copy of the 1954 Today-Tomorrow Conference booklet by the Canadian Lutheran Council,

This storyline provides the overarching frame for the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Project. 

Don Sjoberg is a leader in the development of this storyline. Don experienced the inter-Lutheran efforts towards co-operation and merger from 1954 to 2024 first as a student in Saskatoon, then as a pastor in Edmonton and finally as the first national bishop of the ELCIC, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. David Pfrimmer. is the key interviewer in this storyline.

Lutheran Unity

Sexuality and the ELCIC - July

Sexuality and the ELCIC - July

Lutheran Unity in Canada - October-November

Award Winning Cover Art by Catherine Crivici for Canada Lutheran.

For Lutherans in Canada, much changed after 1976 when congregations in the Eastern, Central and Western synods of the Canada Section of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA-CS) experienced their first ordained women in ministry. In 1980, the ELCC or Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada also began ordaining women. These two groups joined in 1985-1986 to become the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the ELCIC. In 2011 the ELCIC in convention voted to adopt the ELCIC Human Sexuality Statement and passed motions "paving the way for the ordination and installation of gay and lesbian pastors".

 In this storyline Karen Kuhnert presents Archival resources to better understand the Sexuality debates that reach back in Canadian Lutheran history and continue in 2022. 

Sexuality Debates

Global Ministry - December

Sexuality and the ELCIC - July

Global Ministry - December

Image from the 2022 ELCIC Global Mission Brochure for Congregations. Artwork by Catherine Crivici.

Canadian Lutherans have been engaged in "Global" ministry and service in fascinating and changing ways. This storyline includes selected writings from those who served in diverse "overseas missions" and extends to contemporary considerations for loving and serving neighbours today.  


Global Ministries - Coming Soon

Videos Soon to be released

Campus Ministry: John Vedell

Coming in September

The Project Coordinators are working on a number of additional storylines. For example, watch for two webinars this Fall on Confessional Lutheranism in the ELCIC context. The Two event conference is called "For the Sake of the Gospel". 

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