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!

For more details about the fall clean up of the church and church grounds on Sunday, October 18th, click here.

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 …

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg on October 7th. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod document of Commemoration Biographies describes Henry Melchior Muhlenberg as follows: Moving from the Old World to the New, Muhlenberg established the shape of Lutheran parishes for America during a 45-year ministry in Pennsylvania. Born at Einbeck, Germany, in 1711, he came to the American colonies in 1742. A tireless traveler, Muhlenberg helped to found many Lutheran congregations and was the guiding force behind the first American Lutheran synod, the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, founded in 1748. He valued the role of music in Lutheran worship (often serving as his own organist) and was also the guiding force in preparing the first American Lutheran liturgy (also in 1748). Muhlenberg is remembered as a church leader, a journalist, a liturgist, and—above all—a pastor to the congregation in his charge. He died in 1787, leaving behind a large extended family and a lasting heritage: American Lutheranism.