Christmas for Refugees' Children

 On Christmas day we have had a special program for refugees' children that fled the war in the eastern Ukraine. Adults and children who suffered much evil in their lives heard the Gospel stories, learned and sang Christmas carols and got their Christmas gifts, traditional candies (that came from WELS) and Luther's Small Catechisms with Pastor Gausewitz explanations (that came from the Lutheran Heritage Foundation).

Vacation Bible School in Bereznehuvate and Kherson

Ukrainian Lutheran congregations in Kherson and Bereznehuvate and their pastors: Yuriy Tytskiy and Serhiy Somin, as well as our U.S. volunteers from WELS: Craig Reineck, Brenda De Marce, Rhett Cheek, Kari Hurley, Hanna Orta and Philip Kistler, welcome all the kids to the Vacation Bible School. They will find lots of Christian love, studies and fun here! Please continue to support this project and keep it in your prayers.

Vacation Bible School in Kremenets and Ivanivka

Welcome all the kids to the Vacation Bible School at Holy Cross Lutheran Church Kremenets and Saint John Lutheran Church in Ivanivka!  This year VBS topic is "I am Jesus' Lamb." A very special welcome to the WELS volunteers: Brenda De Marce, Rhett Cheek, Gail Kelly, Kari Hurley, Hanna Orta and Philip Kistler!

Two New Communicant Members at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv

Congratulations to brothers Oleksandr Petrenko and Oleksiy Samoilenko, our new communicant members at the Resurrection Lutheran Church! They have studied the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther and upon their graduation from the Catechism course were invited to the Holy Communion. The congregation has also gave them gifts: the Book of Concord (The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church) and  white roses, symbols of righteousness that we have through faith in Christ only.