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Serving our neighbor with new friends
Tragedies can unite people and point them to the common cause of serving their neighbor. The war with Ukraine, unleashed by the Putin regime eight years ago and having reached grave dimensions in February, caused destructions of horrific proportions, loss of life, and refugee flows from the war zone. Even though the Ukraine National Defense ...
22.04.2022
The bishop of GELCU met with the president of the Conference of European Churches
20 April in Lviv took place a meeting between Bishop Pavlo Shvarts and the president of the Conference of European Churches, Rev. Christian Krieger. During the meeting they discussed the current situation in Ukraine and perspectives of the following cooperation between CEC and the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to ...
21.04.2022
Celebration for refugees in Odessa
On 15th of April, a worker of the ‘St. Paul’s rehabilitation center’ – a non-profit partner organization of GELCU – received a call from the ‘Shoulder to shoulder’ charitable fund, with a short message: “Women and children from Kherson are on their way”. They quickly contacted Iulia Zabara – a director of the hotel in the Pastor’s house at the ...
19.04.2022
Easter in GELCU congregations (photo)
Revelation 1:18: "I was dead and, see, I am alive forever and ever! I also hold the keys of death and hell". GELCU congregations celebrate the Resurrection of Christ against the backdrop of war St. Paul`s, Odessa https://youtu.be/hU-KE0FrEaE St. Catherine’s, Kiev (with the anglican Christ Church) St. Martin`s, Kiev ...
18.04.2022
Easter message from the Bishop of GELCU
Revelation 1:18: “I was dead and, see, I am alive forever and ever! I also hold the keys of death and hell” Dear brothers and sisters, We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ against the backdrop of the war. Its acute phase began shortly before the time of Lent, and we were reflecting on the suffering of Jesus during our own ...
17.04.2022
The president of the Berdyansk Lutheran congregation detained
On April 9, the president of the Council of the German Evangelical Lutheran congregation in occupied Berdyansk (Zaporozhye oblast), Artur Kozhevnikov, was detained by the Russians while walking on Primorskaya Square and taken to the police building, where they placed their military commandant's office. He was one of the participants in the ...
16.04.2022
Shelter “Harbor” in Andriivka destroyed. A woman died
In the village of Andreevka, Bucha district, Kyiv region, there was a shelter "Harbor" of the NGO House of Mercy, which was cared for by the of St. Martin`s congregation in Kyiv and opened a mission station on its basis. By the beginning of the active phase of the war, 12 elderly homeless people with disabilities lived there, as well as GELCU ...
02.04.2022
The bishop of GELCU spoke in the Cathedral of Berlin
On 18th of March, the bishop of GELCU Pavlo Shvarts took part in the prayer for peace in the Cathedral of Berlin together with the bishop of Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg Petra Bosse-Huber, the head of the Council of Christian Churches in Germany archpriest Constantin Radu Miron, and the bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of ...
19.03.2022
Road of life: Lutsk – Kharkiv
Jesus told him: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). 1st of March the Diakonia Kościoła Ewangelicko-Augsburskiego w RP - Diakonia Polska gave over to GELCU a load of humanitarian aid and a minibus for the ministry in Ukraine (purchased with donations from Germany). Situated in a relatively safe area of the country, the cities ...
17.03.2022
Country and Church Under Fire
Half of his congregation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is fleeing, while the other half seeks refuge in basements. Services can hardly be held. This is what Pavlo Shvarts, pastor of the congregation in the heavily contested city and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, shares in an interview with Dariusz Bruncz.
08.03.2022
Polish Lutherans for Ukraine
After Bishop's Samiec appeal, some Lutheran parishes in Poland began to organize support, funds, prepare places and receive people from Ukraine Accommodation was made available by parishes or parishioners from Białystok, Bytom Miechowice, Cieszyn, Częstochowa, Dzięgielów, Gliwice, Golasowice, Kalisz, Karpacz, Kielce, Kraków, Mikołajki, ...
03.03.2022
It’s time to pray for a just peace
The time for prayers for peace is over. It's time to pray for a just peace. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. (Ps. 89:14) This morning Putin's regime launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Military objects were bombed by aircraft and cruise missiles, and troops attacked the territory of Ukraine from the ...
24.02.2022