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Back to Weekly News Briefs...May 14, 2009
- BC Baling Day shipment bound for Mauritania
- CLWR announces interim director of communications and education
BC Baling Day shipment bound for Mauritania
Members of the BC Baling committee and volunteers from congregations throughout the lower mainland worked together on May 12 to pack a 20-foot cargo container with kits and quilts gathered from area congregations. The shipment, destined for Mauritania, contains almost 2,400 blankets and over 1,200 layettes. Items, which are valued at approximately $55,000, will be distributed by CLWR’s partner, Lutheran World Federation-Mauritania.
The annual BC Baling Day event takes place at the Mennonite Central Committee warehouse in Clearbrook. Shipping from Vancouver offers a more direct route than sending all the goods to Winnipeg for shipping from an eastern port.
- CLWR News Service
CLWR announces interim director of communications and education
Brian Lorch will serve as CLWR’s interim Director of Communications and Education. His term, from June 2009 to April 2010, covers a parental leave being taken by the incumbent, Daranne Harris.
CLWR’s Director of Communications and Education is responsible for the development of tools and materials which will challenge and educate the constituency served by CLWR.
Lorch comes to CLWR after taking early retirement from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. He is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and is currently serving a second term as vice-chair of the Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod Council. Previous leadership roles include serving as a congregational council chair and youth leader, and membership on national and synod mission committees.
- CLWR News Service
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Members of the BC Baling committee and volunteers from congregations throughout the lower mainland worked together on May 12 to pack a 20-foot cargo container with kits and quilts gathered from area congregations. The shipment, destined for Mauritania, contains almost 2,400 blankets and over 1,200 layettes. Items, which are valued at approximately $55,000, will be distributed by CLWR’s partner, Lutheran World Federation-Mauritania.
The annual BC Baling Day event takes place at the Mennonite Central Committee warehouse in Clearbrook. Shipping from Vancouver offers a more direct route than sending all the goods to Winnipeg for shipping from an eastern port.
- CLWR News Service
CLWR announces interim director of communications and education
Brian Lorch will serve as CLWR’s interim Director of Communications and Education. His term, from June 2009 to April 2010, covers a parental leave being taken by the incumbent, Daranne Harris.
CLWR’s Director of Communications and Education is responsible for the development of tools and materials which will challenge and educate the constituency served by CLWR.
Lorch comes to CLWR after taking early retirement from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. He is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and is currently serving a second term as vice-chair of the Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod Council. Previous leadership roles include serving as a congregational council chair and youth leader, and membership on national and synod mission committees.
- CLWR News Service
