Christ Risen Lutheran Church worship service videos

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Welcome to Christ Risen Lutheran Church! Divine Service is every Sunday @ 10:30 am. We are a confessional Lutheran congregation serving the communities of Kanata and Stittsville in Ottawa’s West End. We believe the Bible is the Word of God. We confess The Three Ecumenical Creeds: The Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed. We subscribe to the Book of Concord (1580). Christ Risen Lutheran Church is a member congregation of Lutheran Church—Canada. If you are visiting from a sister congregation and wish to receive communion, we ask that you kindly reach out beforehand to speak with our pastor. Guests may come for a blessing. For our first time visitors, our worship service follows an order of service laid out in our hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book. All are welcome.

Please join us for the worship services listed below.

What’s new at Christ Risen Lutheran Church

Please join us for Sunday morning Bible study. Bible study begins at 9:30 am. Anyone interested in attending a mid-week Bible study is asked to contact Pastor Lam. Choir practice has resumed on Tuesday evenings at 6:50 pm. New singers are welcome!

The next meeting of Council is scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st at 7:00 pm.

For more details about the Ottawa Circuit Fall Forum to be hosted by Christ Risen on Saturday, November 7th, click here.

The Canadian Lutheran featured a tribute to Christ Risen's long-time organist and choir director, Eloise Schaan, who was called to glory on August 25th, 2026. Also mentioned is Eloise's history as a church musician prior to moving to Kanata and her many contributions to the Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML).

Rev. Larry Beane, Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Gretna, Louisiana, visited Christ Risen in June and wrote a brief account for his blog at Gottesdienst: The Journal of Lutheran Liturgy.

For anyone desiring prayer or visitation, please call or text Pastor Lam at 514-979-1383. For a biography of Christ Risen's pastor, Rev. Milton Lam, click here.

The Church commemorates …

Dorcas, Lydia, and Phoebe on October 25th. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod document of Commemoration Biographies describe Dorcas, Lydia, and Phoebe as follows: These women were exemplary Christians who demonstrated their faith by their material support of the Church. Dorcas (also known as Tabitha) was well-known and much loved for her acts of charity in the city of Joppa, especially for her making clothes for the poor. When Dorcas died suddenly, the members of her congregation sent to the neighboring city of Lydda for the Apostle Peter, who came and raised her from the dead (Acts 9:36–41). Lydia was a woman of Thyatira, who worked at Philippi selling a famous purple dye that was so much in demand in the ancient world. She was also a “worshiper of God” at the local synagogue. When the Apostle Paul encountered her in prayer among other proselyte women, his preaching of the Word brought Lydia to faith in Christ. She and her friends thus became the nucleus of the Christian community in Philippi (16:13–15, 40). Phoebe was another faithful woman associated with the Apostle Paul. She was a deaconess from Cenchrae (the port of Corinth) whom Paul sent to the church in Rome with his Epistle to the Romans. In it he writes of her support for the work of the early Church (Rom 16:1).