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Christmas presents for children
Christmas season is the perfect time to give children presents! This winter children from Lutheran congregations of Odessa region, Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, Zmiivka, Zhytomyr, Bila Tserkva, Zaporizhzhia, Berdiansk and Kyiv (St. Catherine congregation), as well as Reformed congregations in Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk received Christmas ...
06.01.2022
Christmas Market in Odesa
19–27 December 2021, St. Paul Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Odesa hosted a main cultural event of the season – the Christmas Market with a rich cultural and spiritual program. The opening of the Market took place on the 19th December, the fourth Sunday of Advent, after the festive service, during which the biggest stollen in Ukraine was ...
27.12.2021
Christmas in the GELCU and CREC congregations
ODESSA https://youtu.be/QVellPKzlCA?t=680 KHARKOV KIEV (ST. MARTIN) ANDREEVKA (ST.MARTIN`S MISSION STATION) BELAYA TSERKOV PETRODOLINSKOE AND NOVOGRADKOVKA BERDYANSK KRIVOY ROG ZMEEVKA ZHYTOMIR ROVNO (CHRIST THE SAVIOR AND GOD`S COVENANT REFORMED CHURCHES)
26.12.2021
LWF Christmas Message: Hope born in a manger
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, I bring you greetings of joy and peace, rooted in hope, the traditional gifts that we wish for each other in this blessed Christmas season. Yet how difficult it is to experience joy and peace in these uncertain times, as new variants of the Coronavirus continue to cast shadows over our longedfor festive ...
24.12.2021
Christmas Message from the bishop of GELCU
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Many of us celebrate this Christmas with mixed feelings. On the one hand we joyfully anticipate this special holiday and opportunity to meet with our loved ones. On the other hand, we feel anxious watching the events unfolding in the world, near or within the borders of our country. We are happy to ...
When Jesus Was an Embryo
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13) “He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” (Phil 2:7) As one who has used some of the techniques of developmental biology, I have a rather different perspective on Advent to most people. ...
09.12.2021
Advent in GELCU congregations
Оdessa Kiev, St. Katharina Kiev, St. Martin Kharkov Berdyansk Belaya Tserkov Zhytomir Krivoy Roh Zmeyewka Petrodolynskoe
30.11.2021
Thanksgiving Day in GELCU congregations
Odessa Kharkov Krivoy Roh Zaporozhye Poltava Kremenchug Shostka Berdyansk Petrodolinskoe Ivano-Frankovsk (reformed congregation)
06.10.2021
Visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations chaired by the head of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Svyatoslav (Shevchuk), had a meeting with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who was in Ukraine paying an official visit on the occasion of 30 years’ anniversary of Independence restoration in Ukraine. ...
23.08.2021
Lutherans of Odessa returned to the St. Paul church
Congregation of St. Paul has finally gotten the opportunity to hold worship and other events in the church building. Unfortunately, fire security system had not been maintained and was not operational. The Church received an order, prohibiting any mass activities in the church building until the issue with fire security system is solved. A ...
15.08.2021
Eventful beginning of August at Azov seaside
In the beginning of August Berdiansk became a center of church life. 6 August 2021, our congregation in Berdiansk hosted a seminar for Sunday school teachers of German Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ukraine. The workers of child centers and those, who plan to start ministry for children in congregations also participated. Participants of ...
11.08.2021
The bishop’s visit to Odesa
On the 1st of August, the bishop of GELCU Pavlo Shvarts visited the German Evangelical-Lutheran congregation of Odesa to conduct the church service with the Holy Communion and preside over the extraordinary meeting, called due to a crisis in the congregation. Since the church in Odesa is being renovated, the service was held in the hall of the ...
02.08.2021