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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
De-occupation of GELCU
In international law, occupation is a situation, when a territory of a state or parts thereof come under the authority of hostile armed forces of another state. Occupation most often harms the occupied territory, as well as the rest of the country that remained independent, preventing it from using its own resources. The reverse process of ...
16.07.2021
What`s wrong with the interview of Rev. James Krikava?
On 24 June, Rev. James Krikava, the director for the Eurasia region of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Office of International Mission, gave an interview for the KFUO radio, sharing about his ministry. Among other things he mentioned Odessa as a location for running educational projects. From 21:50 Rev. Krikava told his listeners about ...
15.07.2021
GELCU ministers learning to lead support groups
On 1-3 June, the Bishop of GELCU and pastor Vladislav Tsekhanovych took part in the seminar organized by Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary (UETS): “8-step program for curating psychological support groups for adult people suffering bereavement”. Apart from theoretical basics and principles of the work with groups of adults who suffer ...
06.07.2021
The Church that serves
An annual South-East Europe regional group conference of Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) was held from 22 to 24 of June 2021 in the framework of “Church and democracy” CPCE learning process. The topic of this years’ conference was “The Church that serves”. What is the task the Church faces in the time of pandemic (but not ...
01.07.2021
GELCU welcomes the new General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation
“Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else” Corinthians 9:13 The Lutheran World Federation Council has elected Estonian theologian Rev. Anne Burghardt as the ...
22.06.2021
GELCU Synod 2021
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (NIV Lk.6:36) This verse, chosen by the Moravian Brethren of Herrnhut as the watchword of 2021, was of crucial importance to a Synod meeting of German Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ukraine held on 28-29 of May in the building of St. Catherine's Church in Kyiv. 13 of 23 GELCU congregations sent ...
30.05.2021