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ELCIC delegates approve resolution on Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel

An amended motion calling the church to respond to, “opportunities for solidarity and advocacy” and pray for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel, was passed during the Saturday evening session of the 2023 ELCIC Special Convention. The resolution came forward to convention delegates as a joint motion between the Anglican Church of Canada and […]

Pat Lovell presented with 2023 ELCIC Leadership Award

On Saturday evening, the ELCIC Leadership Award was presented to Pat Lovell of the Eastern Synod. Introduced in 2017 as a part of the ELCIC’s commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the award is given to an individual – rostered or lay – who demonstrates leadership and is committed to advancing the mission […]

ELCIC Special Convention delegates approve report and recommendations from the Task Force on Carbon Neutrality

In a near-unanimous vote, delegates to the 2023 ELCIC Special Convention approved the report and recommendations of the Task Force on Carbon Neutrality. Earlier in the session, task force member Louis Giguere walked delegates through a Green House Gas (GHG) Inventory Calculator for Congregations (https://elcic.ca/stewardship-of-creation/congregational-stewardship-resources/). The GHG Calculator tool was developed by the Task Force […]

Anglicans, Lutherans approve resolution to be in full communion with Moravian church

The ELCIC Special Convention and ACC General Synod, have approved motions that will bring the Anglican Church of Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Canadian churches of the Moravian Church in North American into full communion. The resolution, One Flock, One Shepherd – Lutherans, Anglicans and Moravians – Called to Walk together, […]

Convention delegates affirm recommendations from Task Force Addressing Ableism

Friday evening, delegates to the 2023 ELCIC Special Convention voted unanimously to adopt the report and recommendations of the Task Force Addressing Ableism. The motion came moved and seconded by the ELCIC’s National Church Council. The report in its entirety can be found in Appendix 16 of the Bulletin of Reports (https://elcic.box.com/s/hxc8vn3bfj6b0bjk95ha2a2hiboy9xa9). Prior to the […]

Special Convention delegates hear from Task Force on Carbon Neutrality and Task Force Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Friday morning’s third plenary session for the 2023 ELCIC Special Convention / Assembly 2023 included presentations from the two remaining task forces that had not yet made their reports and recommendations to Lutheran delegates. The ELCIC Task Force on Carbon Neutrality, as well as the Task Force Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia both shared introductions […]

Task Force Addressing Ableism and Task Force Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Racial Injustice share reports and recommendations

Thursday afternoon’s second plenary session for the 2023 ELCIC Special Convention included time to hear from two of the four task forces that will make reports and recommendations to Lutheran delegates. The ELCIC Task Force Addressing Ableism, as well as the Task Force Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Racial Justice Issues both shared an introduction […]

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Matthew 10:40-42

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Rewards

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous, 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

John 15:12-17

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12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

John 21:15-19

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Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”

Luke 11:33-36

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The Light of the Body

33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket; rather, one puts it on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

Matthew 8:1-4

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Jesus Cleanses a Man

8 When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, 2 and there was a man with a skin disease who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be made clean!” Immediately his skin disease was cleansed. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”