One-hundred-and forty-nine delegates (80 lay, 59 rostered, 10 youth), as well as special guests, visitors and volunteers gathered in Winnipeg, July 6–8, at the University of Manitoba, for the 16th Biennial National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). A highlight of the weekend was Friday night’s commemoration service, hosted by St. Gianna Beretta Molla Catholic Church, Winnipeg, with National Bishop Susan Johnson presiding. “When we acknowledge that we are Liberated by God’s Grace, we give up all fear of our own salvation,” Bishop Johnson preached. “We can no longer live as isolated, self-made people. We have to...
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