Why was CLMS established?
When Lutheran Church-Canada was founded in 1988 as an autonomous body, one of the reasons stated for its formation was “the conviction that such an organization will facilitate our witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our country and throughout the world.” It was assumed at the outset that achieving this objective would require substantially more financial resources than would be available through the regular budgetary process. In 1990 a convention of LCC established a Task Force on Alternate Funding, which presented its report in 1993. That report, which included a recommendation to establish a mission society, was adopted by the convention, although for various reasons, the organization of the mission society never took place. In February 1997, president emeritus Rev. Edwin Lehman , with the consent and blessing of President Ralph Mayan, invited seven other individuals to meet in Winnipeg to discuss the formation of such a society.
When Lutheran Church-Canada was founded in 1988 as an autonomous body, one of the reasons stated for its formation was “the conviction that such an organization will facilitate our witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our country and throughout the world.” It was assumed at the outset that achieving this objective would require substantially more financial resources than would be available through the regular budgetary process. In 1990 a convention of LCC established a Task Force on Alternate Funding, which presented its report in 1993. That report, which included a recommendation to establish a mission society, was adopted by the convention, although for various reasons, the organization of the mission society never took place. In February 1997, president emeritus Rev. Edwin Lehman , with the consent and blessing of President Ralph Mayan, invited seven other individuals to meet in Winnipeg to discuss the formation of such a society. The result was the birth of “Concordia Lutheran
