East District reelects President Zabel
KITCHENER, Ontario – The East District of Lutheran Church–Canada reelected President Paul Zabel to another three year term on May 4, 2015 in Kitchener, Ontario. He was first elected to serve the District as President in 2009.
President Zabel was reelected on the first ballot, receiving 64 votes (with 58 required to declare him elected). Other nominees received votes as follows: Rev. Marvin Bublitz 5; Rev. Mark Danielson 1; Rev. Brian Dunlop 2; Rev. Donald Schieman 10; and Rev. Timothy Teuscher 33.
Also on May 4, the East District elected Rev. Timothy …
He Makes War to Cease: Canadian Lutherans and World War I
by Norman J. Threinen
On June 28, 1914¸ Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed in Sarajevo, Serbia, the victim of an assassin’s bullet. The assassination of the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire set in motion decisions that culminated in multiple declarations of war including a declaration by Britain against Germany on August 4. When Britain declared war on Germany, the entire British Empire, including Canada, was also at war. The total cost in human life of the war would eventually be estimated to be eight million dead and twenty-one …