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Weekly Bulletin Sunday June 2nd

Posted in 2013 / Weekly Bulletin

Each Week Mount Olive produces a bulletin with information about upcoming events, activities and opportunities around the church and circuit. To check this week’s bulletin click...


Rev. Ted Giese Meets Mount Olive�s New Vicar, James Preus from CLTS.

On a very quick trip to Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines Ontario (May 27th to 29th) Pastor Ted Giese met James and Theresa Preus, our new vicar and his wife! The trip was to attend the Vicarage Retreat, an opportunity to meet the vicar and go over details about his time...


Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Directed by J.J. Abrams - Movie Review

Click the IssuesEtc banner below to hear the radio interview. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Directed by: J.J. Abrams. Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof. Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch. Runtime: 132 min Rated PG-13 for...


Sermon from Sunday May 26th 2013 / Trinity Sunday �Wisdom and the Trinity�

Posted in 2013 / Audio Sermons / Pastor Ted Giese / Sermons

Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / May 26th / Trinity Sunday, Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31.   “Does not wisdom call?                    Does not understanding raise her voice?           On the heights beside the way,                    at the crossroads she takes...


Weekly Bulletin Sunday May 26th

Posted in 2013 / Weekly Bulletin

Each Week Mount Olive produces a bulletin with information about upcoming events, activities and opportunities around the church and circuit. To check this week’s bulletin click...


Catechumen Luke Weber Confirmed on Pentecost Sunday 2013

With Christ With us we Are Never Alone This year was a unique year; Mount Olive had a single young catechumen, Luke Weber. In 2011 we had 9, in 2012 we had 5, and next year in 2014 we'll have 13. Every year we have some adult confirmations of Baptism as well. Luke had as his confirmation...


Sermon - May 19th, 2013 - That's the Spirit

26 …the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. (N.I.V.)   This morning, we have come to the festival of Pentecost. This morning, in our second service, we celebrate the baptism of...


Mount Olive Provides Grace Prayer at Queen�s 2013 Birthday Luncheon

Posted in News / 2013 / Pastor Ted Giese / Prayer

Members of Mount Olive Lutheran Church (Rod Gellner, Pauline Sesula and Rev. Ted Giese) were on hand for the Annual Queen’s Birthday Luncheon (Saturday May 18th) on the 2013 Victoria Day Long weekend. The guest speaker was the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, her Honour the Honourable...


Weekly Bulletin Sunday May 19th

Posted in 2013 / Weekly Bulletin

Each Week Mount Olive produces a bulletin with information about upcoming events, activities and opportunities around the church and circuit. To check this week’s bulletin click...


Iron Man 3 (2013) Directed by Shane Black

Iron Man 3 (2013) Written and Directed by: Shane Black Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce Runtime: 130 min Rated: PG (Canada) G (Quebec) PG-13 (MPAA) for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief suggestive content...


Bible Basics Class Part Four � Bible Study Resources

Posted in 2013 / Bible Study / Pastor Ted Giese

Tonight is the last class: (May 15th) In part four of our Bible Basics Class, We will look at various Bible study resources. This evening we'll also conclude our reading of St Paul's Letter to the Philippian Christians with chapter four. We will also review what we looked at...


Sermon from Sunday May 12th 2013 / Seventh Sunday of Easter

Posted in 2013 / Audio Sermons / Easter / Pastor Ted Giese / Sermons / ^John

  Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / May 11th / Seventh Sunday of Easter Season of Easter, John 17:20-26.           “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in...


Weekly Bulletin Sunday May 12th

Posted in 2013 / Weekly Bulletin

Each Week Mount Olive produces a bulletin with information about upcoming events, activities and opportunities around the church and circuit. To check this week’s bulletin click...


Vacation Bible School 2013 August 26th to 30th

Posted in 2013 / Children / News / VBS

Tell It on the Mountain 2013 VBS PDF Registration forms: print, fill out & send to our office!  Vacation Bible School Overview At Tell It on the Mountain, our 2013 VBS (August 26th to 30th), your children will learn about God through five mountaintop Bible accounts where God meets His...


Facility Update! Ramp Access Sign Installed!

Posted in 2013 / Church Properties / News

Great news! The new No Parking sign to post by the Mount Olive Access Ramp has been installed!   Special thanks to the Board of Church Properties for installing the new sign. This should make things easier for everyone who needs access to our north side entrance ramp. If you have any...


Book of the Month for May 2013

Posted in 2013 / Book of the Month

Lutheranism 101: Baptism, Book of the Month for May 2013   Baptism is not a mere symbol of rebirth. It is not a choice or a prize for attaining a certain amount of faith.   Lutheranism 101: Holy Baptism gives an overview of what Baptism is, what it does, how it does it, and what it means...


Funeral Sermon for Hilda Tourney / Wednesday May 8th 2013

Funeral Sermon for Hilda Franziska Tourney / Wednesday May 8th 2013 / Rev. Ted Giese / Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Regina,  Saskatchewan.   “Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days...


Bible Basics Class Part Three � Bible in an Hour

Posted in 2013 / Bible Study / Pastor Ted Giese

"Bible in an Hour" will be used again this evening (May 8th) in part three of our Bible Basics Class. We will review this overview of the central story of the Bible and conclude listening to it. If you would like to pick up your own copy of the "Bible in an Hour" programme please feel free to...


Sermon Preached at CLTS Nehemiah 5:1-13

Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines (Ontario)/ Rev. Ted A. Giese / January 29th 2013: Season of Epiphany, Nehemiah 5:1-13 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons...


Sermon -- May 5th, 2013. John 5:1-15. A Poolside Proclamation.

Posted in 2013 / Audio Sermons / Easter / Rev. Terry Defoe / Sermons / ^John

    1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem – for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is, in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, a pool, which, in Aramaic, is called Bethesda,and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to...