Another Attack

Someone has filed a case against the Ukrainian Lutheran Church in the Shevchenkivski court of Kyiv. They would like to use part of the land rented by the church from the city of Kyiv.  We have learned about this by accident since the other side has never informed us about that. Please keep our church in your prayers as we try to defend our rights.

Two New Communicant Members

Brother Dmytro Veselov and sister Larysa Zimenko have become new communicant members of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church.  They have studied Catechism with our Deacon Dmytro Prokopchuk (his assiastant was Deacon Serhiy Berezin) and they have also attanded different Bible studies in our parishe, led by Pastor. After public confession of their Lutheran faith they were invited to communion and membership in the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. Resurrection Lutheran Church has presented them with confessional gifts and prayerfully asked for them many happy and blessed years in the Lord.  So do we in this blog!

Long Day

Pastoral Conference of Kyivan Eparchy took place at the ULC office in Kyiv yesterday. Rev. Vadym Zinchenko was leading the Conference and Rev. Victor Khaustov from Kharkiv was the essayist at the Conference. His paper analyzed  Jehova's Witnesses' cult groundless crtisism of the Holy Trinity.  Pastor Khaustov's essay is a deep analysis on the basis of JW cult journals and Scriptural texts both in Hebrew and Greek. The essay had many quotations from Church fathers as well as from modern authors. After discussing the essay pastors shared news from their parishes, discussed prospectives of church life in Ukraine and took part in the Vespers of the Resurrection Lutheran Church in the evening.

Soon

Ukrainian readers will get a new book -  The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel by C. F. W. Walther.  We have finished reviewing its Ukrainian translation and we pray and hope that in a month or two it will be published by the Lutheran Heritage Foundation. The book is great and it's a necessary reading for each Lutheran theologian, pastor, teacher and layman. I am looking forward to seeing this awesome book paper edition soon!