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 …

Ignatius of Antioch on October 17th. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod document of Commemoration Biographies describes Ignatius of Antioch as follows: Ignatius was the bishop of Antioch in Syria at the beginning of the second century A.D. and an early Christian martyr. Near the end of the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan (98–117), Ignatius was arrested, taken in chains to Rome, and eventually thrown to the wild beasts in the arena. On the way to Rome, he wrote letters to the Christians at Ephesus, Magnesia, Tralles, Rome, Philadelphia, and Smyrna, and also to Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna. In the letters, which are beautifully pastoral in tone, Ignatius warned against certain heresies (false teachings). He also repeatedly stressed the full humanity and deity of Christ, the reality of Christ’s bodily presence in the Lord’s Supper, the supreme authority of the bishop, and the unity of the Church found in her bishops. Ignatius was the first to use the word catholic to describe the universality of the Church. His Christ-centeredness, his courage in the face of martyrdom, and his zeal for the truth over against false doctrine are a lasting legacy to the Church.