SELC Newsletter

Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Traditionally, if any event in the Church coincided with a church festival, then next years it is celebrated in accordance with the church (but not secular) calendar. Therefore, we celebrate the anniversary of the consecration of our Bishop on the 4th Sunday after Easter. This year …

SELC Newsletter #298 – Fifteenth Anniversary of the Ordination of Bishop Lytkin Read More »

Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, …We beseech to You, Lord: look down from heaven to this church. May this place be holy forever. Here, let the crimes of people be washed away by the stream of Divine grace. Here, let the old sinful man die, and may a new generation of …

SELC Newsletter #297 – New Church Building Dedicated in Chita Read More »

Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, May we bring to your attention the Christmas message of our Bishop Vsevolod (will be read in the parishes of Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church during the Christmas liturgy). Brothers and sisters, History has not yet witnessed things that happen to our world today. While there were …

SELC Newsletter #296 – Christmas and New Years Greetings Read More »

Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Father Vitali Gavrilov of the parish of the Transfiguration of the Lord (in Tuim, Khakassia) wrote: What a rich and often sad history our people have, and how little we know about it! Even about the closest of our people, sometimes we do not know much …

SELC Newsletter #295 – Anelia’s Story of Survival as a Lutheran Under Stalinist Persecution Read More »

Peace to you, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Our traditional Summer seminars were held in a rural place near Novosibirsk. More than a hundred people came from different parishes from Transbaikalia to Moscow and the South Urals. We thank those who prayed and donated for the seminars! In his speech at the opening of …

SELC Newsletter #294 – Summer Theological Seminars Read More »

Peace to you, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The “green time” of the church calendar has begun, and we would like to bring to your attention an excerpt from the sermon of priest Pavel Zayakin: It seems like a long time ago on Sunday the altar wasn’t green, right?  But this is the “ordinary …

SELC Newsletter #293 – Ordinary Time Read More »

Peace to you, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Our Church does not have a special missionary strategy; we just conduct missionary work in the locations where our parishioners live, in order to nourish them with the Word and the sacraments and to share the Gospel with people around, inviting them to the church services. …

SELC Newsletter #292 – New Mission in Krasnodar Read More »

Peace to you, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Father Vitali Gavrilov (of the Parish of Transfiguration in Tuim) just returned from the trip to the village of Sukhovo, where we have a small mission congregation. Alas, we can not visit our “house church” in Sukhovo often.  In our Church, we experience a shortage of …

SELC Newsletter #291 – A Visit to Sukhovo Read More »

Peace to you, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In our parish in Angarsk, Fr. Vitali Gavrilov conducted the wedding of Artyom and Elizaveta. Our parish there is very small (and Lutheranism, alas, is generally a very small denomination in modern Russia), but life goes on.  And the main reason for this is celebrated Eucharist, …

SELC Newsletter #290 – A Wedding in Angarsk Read More »

Peace to you, dear brothers and Sisters in Christ, and greetings to you on this Feast of the Presentation of our Lord. Today’s Gospel tells us about going to church, or rather: then it was still a temple in Jerusalem. To be more precise, the Gospel tells about two temples: the temple in Jerusalem and …

SELC Newsletter #289 – The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord Read More »