Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, May we share with you the small travel-report we received from father Vitali Gavrilov of the parish of Transfiguration in Tuim. Many of our parishioners live quite far from us. Well, what is “far”? Here in Siberia, everything is “far.” Or… maybe not far. Just a […]
SELC Newsletter – Faith and Hope #271 – August 2019 Read More »
Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, in accordance with her calendar, the Church celebrates the day of Saint James the Apostle. Of course, in some parishes, this holiday (like the others that fall on a weekday) is moved to the nearest Sunday. But we congratulate you today, and may we bring
SELC Newsletter – Faith and Hope #270 – July 2019 Read More »
Dear friends of SLMS; Robert Kiefer, the SLMS Treasurer, recently sent our May donations to Siberia for use in the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church (100% of all donations to the general fund are sent to the mission field in Siberia. No undesignated funds are used for operational costs.) The following is Bishop Vsevolod Lytkin’s response
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Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters, We are glad to greet you with Easter Greetings: Христос воскрес! Christ is risen! May we bring to your attention the words of greetings from the Easter Message 2019 of our Bishop Vsevolod that were read today in all parishes of SELC during the Easter liturgy: The light
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Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Our Church is very serious about her liturgy and, therefore, only ordained ministers serve the liturgy and distribute the holy sacrament. The laymen can help at the liturgy (for example, to open the altar gate and to light the altar candles). The laymen can also read
SELC Newsletter – Faith and Hope #269 – March 2019 Read More »
Download PDF As our eyes turn to Spring and warmer temperatures, it remains very cold in Siberia with average high temps of about 10 degrees. While the average may be a balmy 10 degrees, temperatures of 30 degrees below zero are not uncommon, but the lows during February in eastern Siberia were 50 degrees below
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Dear Robert [Keifer, SLMS Treasurer], Thank you very much for your help! Today I served the liturgy (the last Sunday before Great Lent) in Novosibirsk, and other priests were in the travels. Rev. Pavel Khramov was in Novokuznetsk. Rev. Alexey Streltsov was in Chelyabinsk (where he came from Beloretsk — as we have the mission
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Unexpected Matching Fund Donation ignites new incentive among the friends and supporters of the young Lutheran Seminary in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Snohomish, WA has kicked off the New Year with a $60,000 matching gift donation for the Novosibirsk Seminary. Beginning February 1 through March 15, up to $60,000 in donations
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Zion Lutheran Church of Bridgeville, PA hosted Rev. Alexey Streltsov and Dr. Timothy Quill of the Siberian Lutheran Mission Society on Saturday, January 5, 2019. About seventy Lutherans from the area attended a luncheon and presentation followed by an Epiphany worship service. Streltsov, who was raised as an atheist in the waning years of the
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Download as PDF Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! We just celebrated one of the most significant festivals of the Church: Presentation in the Temple. This festival is unusual. We are already far from Christmas, we have already heard about the Baptism of the Lord, we heard about the miracle at the
SELC Newsletter – Faith and Hope #268 – February 2019 Read More »
