Newsletter for April and May 2026
NEWS FROM COUNCIL
Livestreaming has been in place for a few weeks. The best way to access this will be to go to our YouTube channel, found at peace lutheran church leduc alberta. Locate the live tab and the service will be located there. We hope to launch each Sunday about 20 minutes prior to the start of service. The other way will be to access the link from our Facebook page. The link will be available about fifteen minutes prior to the start of service.
We will endeavour to keep the congregation off the live stream, but if you have any concerns, please let us know, especially if you are volunteering as a lector or are planning to come up to the mic to make announcements.
The process of filming is quite easy as it’s a matter of pressing a button to set the camera on the Altar or the screen. If you would like to learn how to work it on the tablet, please let Kevin Christenson, Oystein Guren or Pastor Matt know. We can really use the help with this!
The Spring Clean-up is scheduled for Saturday, May 23. We have a few jobs on the list to get ready for the 90th anniversary. If you are able to help, we would greatly appreciate it.
90th ANNIVERSARY
Plans are underway for the 90th anniversary of Peace Lutheran Church.
We will be celebrating this milestone September 13th.
We are looking for a photographer in the congregation who has a digital camera so we can download pictures after the celebration.
A get together will be held on Saturday, May 2nd to look through photo albums and pictures to incorporate into a video we will be playing. If you would like to join, please let Dreanne know.
We would like to have the cross on the altar refurbished for the service. If you would like to help get this project done, please talk to Dorothy about it.
Feel free to reach out to Dorothy Gummer at 780-986-6012 with any questions or ideas. Anyone is welcome to join in on the fun; there’s no big commitment.
Volunteer Appreciation Day will be celebrated on Sunday, May 3rd. Following the service, we will have snacks and beverages to thank everyone who has taken time to volunteer around the church. It takes a village, and we appreciate every one of you. This is a thank you to EVERYONE! Each and everyone of you have helped the church in your own way, and we’d like to say thank you!
The annual Spring Clean-Up event will be held on Saturday, May 23rd. We will require helpers to tidy up the property and do some light cleaning and organizing in the church.
LETTER FROM THE BISHOP
April 2026
Dear Beloved in Christ,
Easter begins in darkness and cold, behind a seemingly immovable stone. Before anyone expects it, God is already at work long before dawn, while guards stand watch against the very possibility of renewal.
This is no polished or pretty day. A tomb is still a tomb. Even a small stone is very heavy. So let us not pretend that Easter is merely a “feel-good” moment. It is a day of grief, shock, and confusion. Women run with impossible, breathless news. Others hesitate, unable to receive it. All of this belongs to Easter. All of it is part of how God realigns the human heart.
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
We now live in an unfolding season of resurrection. We know that Good Friday did not have the final word. Life does. Freedom does. Love does.
And yet, we still feel the pull of forces that draw us back into oppression, rigidity, and captivity shaped by shame, exclusion, and isolation. There are voices that would wrap the cross in the banners of nation and power, shrinking the boundless love of Christ into something guarded and small. But the risen Christ refuses containment. Jesus crosses thresholds, breathes peace into fearful rooms, and gathers people from every language and land.
There are distortions as well. The Gospel reduced to moral advice. The cross softened into sentiment. The resurrection treated as metaphor rather than miracle. But Easter resists being tamed. It is not about improvement. It is about new creation. Not a gentle adjustment, but a holy upheaval in which even death is undone.
This is God’s wide-open invitation into a different way of being. The Gospel does not belong to any nation, political group, or even the Church itself. It is for all creation. It declares that life is not accidental, love is not optional, and hope is not naïve. The resurrection calls us awake.
Let us not become people who speak of faith without being shaped by it. This Easter, may we encounter the living Christ who still meets, teaches, and transforms.
Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Bishop Trish Schmermund
Synod of Alberta and the Territories, ELCIC