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The Synod and the conference for the presidents of Councils
According to the new edition of the Constitution of GELCU, congregations are represented at the Synod exclusively by the presidents of Councils. Therefore, it made sense to combine the regular Synod meeting and the conference for the presidents of congregations’ Councils. In total, the presidents of Councils (or legally approved proxy ...
09.05.2023
Easter 2023
Kyiv, St. Catherine`s Kyiv, St. Matrin`s Kharkiv Odessa Shostka Berdyansk Krivoy Rog Poltava Vinnitsia Novogradkivka Petrodolynskoe Zhytomyr Bile Tserkva Kremenchug Zaporozhye Pidhaychiki, St. Andrew`s Reformed Church Zmiivka
10.04.2023
Joint prayer for peace with German bishop during Odessa visit
Last week, the leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD), Ralf Meister, together with the executive director of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (GNK/LWB), Norbert Denecke, visited the congregation of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine (GELCU) in Odessa. Here they were ...
24.03.2023
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Wilhelm Loehe
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe (1808-1872) served from 1837 to the end of his life as a village pastor in Neuendettelsau, Germany, in the vicinity of Nuremberg. This was a call that Loehe did not covet. However, from this out-of-the way place, Loehe engaged in a ministry and mission that had monumental influence, not only in Germany, but as far away ...
02.01.2023
Commemoration of Augsburg confession
The confession was presented to the Diet of Augsburg, an assembly of political leaders in the Holy Roman Empire, on June 25, 1530. Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther’s most influential colleague in Wittenberg, composed the document since Luther couldn’t attend the Diet because he had been declared a heretic and outlaw by the ecclesiastical and ...
24.06.2022
Why celebrate Christmas?
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of ...
24.12.2021
St. Catherine’s, Kiev
Kiev, Lyuteranska, 22 - More about the church »
St. Martin, Kiev
Kyiv, Krakivska str., 13в, 02094 - More about the church »
Holy Ascension, Kharkov
Kharkivsk'a oblast, m. Kharkiv, vul. Rybalko 12a - More about the church »
St. Paul, Odessa
Novoselskogo str, 68 - More about the church »
Berdiansk
Liuteranska str, 21 - More about the church »
Alexandria
Reconciliation, Poltava
Kotsyubinskogo Str, 54a - More about the church »
Transfiguration, Bila Tserkva
Spartakivska str, 16/2 - More about the church »
Zaporizhzhia
Hvardiyskiy blvdr, 24, app. 29 - More about the church »
Zmiivka
Kherson oblast, Berislav rayon, Zmiivka, str. Budyonny, 11, 74372 - More about the church »
Kremenchug
vul. Kovalova, 6 - More about the church »
Kryvyi Rih
V. Skripka Str, 66 - More about the church »
Novohradkivka
Odessa oblast, Odessa rayon, Novogradkovka, st. Solnechnaya, 1, 67830 - More about the church »
Petrodolynske
Odessa oblast, Odessa district, Petrodolynske, st. Sosnova, 7, 67810 - More about the church »
Salvation, Shostka
Sumy oblast, Shostka, Sadovyi Bul`var str., 55-a - More about the church »
Zhytomyr
Kotsyubinskogo Str, 5 - More about the church »
Vinnitsia
prov. L'va Tolstogo, 2/2 - More about the church »
Donetsk