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125 Years
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(1879
- 2004)
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Lutheran
Church-Canada
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East
District
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Celebrating
our 125th Anniversary in 2004
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In the book,
The Beginnings of Lutheran Church-Canada
,
A. H. Schwermann says,
"Under God, the work of Eastern Canada,
begun in 1854, prospered, so that twenty-five years later, in
1879, the Canada (now Ontario) District was organized with 14
pastors, 28 congregations, and 2,036 communicants. Its first
president was Pastor John Adam Ernst."
[The
Ontario District of LCMS is now the East District of LCC]
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Throughout the year,
announcements about the District's 125th Anniversary will appear in:
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www.lcceastdistrict.ca
- East
District Web site
-
With Great Boldness
- East District Newsletter
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The Canadian
Lutheran
- East District News
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125th
Anniversary Thank-offering Appeal:
A
ll
members of East District congregations
will be given the opportunity to participate in the 125th
Anniversary Thankoffering Appeal
(adopted at the 2003 district
convention)
.
V
olksblatt.
Nine scheduled
special edition issues
of
Volksblatt
, the
first church paper of our district, are set to be first published
and distributed to all congregations in March.
G
roups/organizations
within our congregations (Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, LWML
societies, LLL groups, etc.), and district auxiliary
organizations, are encouraged to make this 125th Anniversary
Thankoffering their special mission project over the next two
years.
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From:
With Great Boldness
(East District
Newsletter), January, 2004
Author:
Rev. Allen P. Maleske, District President
Co-Workers in His Kingdom
:
This January, 2004 column begins the anniversary year with a
prayer written by C.F.W. Walther three years before the founding
of our District.
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Lutheran Heritage
Anniversary Service
In 1987 the Commission on Worship of the Missouri
Synod issued a Lutheran Heritage Anniversary Service in
commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the death of C. F. W.
Walther, founding father of the synod. The service is based upon the
Chief Service included in the 1856 agenda or hymnal of the Missouri
Synod that was produced under the leadership of Walther. It was this
agenda that congregations of our district were using when the Canada
District was organized in 1879.
Permission has been received by Pastor Teuscher
from Dr. Paul Grime, executive director of the Commission on
Worship, to photocopy, scan, edit, etc. this service for use
throughout our district during our 125th Anniversary observance.
A master copy of the service, suitable
for copying or scanning, along with the music for the organist, is
available from the district office.
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You are invited to the East
District's
125
th
Anniversary
Lutheran Heritage Service
@
Historic St. Paul's Lutheran Church
137 Queen St., Kitchener, ON N2G 1W2
OCTOBER 2, 2004
9:30 a.m.
All are Welcome!
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