December 28, 2007. Deacon Vasyl Andreychuk, Professor Roger Kovaciny and Pastor Taras Kokovskiy have visited Oblast Psycho-Neurological Hospital for children in Kremenets. Thanks to the support of the U.S. Lutherans repair works were don at the Hospital. In addition to that a massage room, a training room and a cafeteria was made as well as heating system was installed and food was bought. Children and teachers have presented the visitors with a New Year Day concert.

December 16, 2007. Advent began in the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. On that day Pastor Taras Kokovskiy has led a presentation of Sigbert Becker's book, "Revelation: The Distant Triumph Song". Professor Roger Kovaciny, on request of Pastor Kokovskiy, has written an article about S. Becker who was his Professor at the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon. Rev. Roger Kovaciny states that Sigbert Becker was an "encyclopedia" theologian, he had an excellent memory and knew the Bible by heart.

December 11, 2007. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Kherson has finished studies of the book of Revelation and began studies of the Gospel of John. All those who wish to study the Gospel in Kherson are invited to join the Bible class at 10 a.m. at the Music School, in 42 komsomolska Street each Sunday.

December 8, 2007. Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kremenets has been visited by Bihsop Vyacheslav Hoprynchuk who has led the liturgy and preached to the congregation. After the worship service Pastors Vyacheslav Horpynchuk and Taras Kokovskiy have introduced to the members and guests of the church a book written by Sigbert Becker, "Revelation: The Distant Triumph Song". The book was translated into Ukrainian by Pastor Taras Kokovskiy and published by the Lutheran Heritage Foundation.

December 8, 2007. Sophia radio-station in Kherson (99.4 FM) began to broadcast weekly radio-programs "We speak about God". Pastor Oleh Stetsiuk is the speaker. The program is broadcast on Thurdays at 8:30 p.m. in Kherson and in Kherson area. More about the program you can find at: www.ulckherson.narod.ru (in Russian).

November 25, 2007. Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv has welcome sister Liudmyla Prokhorenko as she received her First Holy Communion in the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. We also wish sister Liudmyla all the richest blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ and traditional Ukrainian many and blessed years!

November 25, 2007. Resurrection Lutheran Church representatives have brought flowers and lit candles at the monument to the victims of the Genocide of Ukrainian nation on the St. Michael's Square in Kyiv. Pastor Vyacheslav Horpynchuk has led his parishioners in prayer of Commemoration of the Day of the Famine and political oppression remembrance. During the genocide, almost 10 million Ukrainians were killed just in one year.

November 8-9, 2007. The Sobor (Convention) of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church took place in Kremenets. The Sobor has reviewed the reports of the Church officials, Eparchy heads and parishes of the Tavrian Eparchy. With great interest delegates of the Convention listened to the Sobor's essay "Luther's Small Catechism -Our Powerful Tool for Young and Old" presented by Rev. Professor John Vogt, the Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary of Saint Sophia Rector. The Sobor has elected for one-year term Pastor Serhiy Romaniuk from Ivano-Frankivsk to be the Vice-Bishop of the Church and mr. Ihor Rudzik, a Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv member to be the Secretary of the ULC for the next five years. The Convention has also elected Mr. Oleh Zelenov, from Christ the Savior Lutheran Church in Sevastopol to be a member of the Synodical Council. The Sobor has elected new members of the Committees and created a new committee - a Committee on the Christian Literature. The Sobor has discussed other important matters of the church life. Bishop Vyacheslav Horpynchuk was presiding at the Sobor. The next Convention of the ULS is scheduled for September 2008 in Mykolaiv.


November 8, 2007. Bishop Vyacheslav Horpynchuk has introduced to the ULC pastors and laymen a new book from the People's Bible series. The book is published in an electronic format and is entitled "Book of books" and it is an introduction to the books of the Scriptures. It was written by John Schaller and is an excellent resource on the Bible. The translation of the book into Ukrainian was accomplished by Pastor Vyacheslav Horpynchuk

November 7, 2007. The General Pastoral Conference of the ULC took place in Kremenets. Pastor Richard Warnker of "Thoughts of faith" mission society made his presentation on evangelism entitled "Evangelism in the Light of Acts 5:42." After a lively discussion of the paper pastors thanked Pastor Warnke for his interesting and instructive essay and discussed other matters of the ULC life. The Conference has reelected for the next five-year term Rev. Serhiy Zuev (President) and Rev. Taras Kokovskiy (Secretary).


November 6, 2007. Bishop Vyacheslav Horpynchuk has presented to participants and guests of the Synodical Council of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church Sibert Becker's book "Revelation: The Distant Triumph Song." The book was translated from English by pastor Taras kokovskiy from Ternopil. These commentaries on the book of Revelation are regarded by many as the best existing commentary on the last book of the Bible.


November 6, 2007. ULC Synodical Council meeting took place in the building of the Lord's Cross Lutheran Church in Kremenets. The Synodical Council has listened to the reports of the ULC officials and the rector of the Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary of Saint Sophia. The Synodical Council has discussed preparations to the 16th Convention of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church.

November 3, 2007. Art photos collection by Ukrainian Lutheran Church pastor, Rev. Taras Kokovskiy was used by the BBC Ukrainian service on their official web-site. To enjoy pictures of beauty from our pastor you can here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/entertainment/story/2007/11/071102_reader_galery_kokovskyj.shtml

October 31, 2007. On this day in 1517 Dr. Martin Luther has nailed his famous 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Those these³ initiated the Lutheran Reformation. On this day in 2007 three pastors from the ULC: Rev. Taras Kokovskiy from Ternopil, Rev. Oleh Stesiuk from Kherson and Rev. Serhiy Kudryk from Chernihiv have participated in the web-conference hosted by the RISU, a prominent religious information agency in Ukraine. The web-conference was titled "Ukrainian Lutheranism today (on behalf of the 490th anniversary of the Reformation action of Martin Luther)". You can read materials of the web-conference here (in Ukrainian). http://www.risu.org.ua/ukr/religion.and.society/web-conference/article;18717/

Pictures: Pastors Tars Kokovskiy, Oleh Stetsiuk and Serhiy Kudryk.

October 28, 2007. Reformation Sunday was celebrated on this day in the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. Ukrainian Lutherans have thanked for life of Dr. Martin Luther, who was used by the Lord to renew the Gospel proclamation in His Church. Concerts took place in the parishes. Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv has enjoyed children's choir singing. Church youth group member, Kateryna Hoprynchuk, has presented the song "Reformation" written by parish members Dmytro Prokopchuk (Youth group) and Serhiy Yenanov (Choir Director). Celebrations have been finished with traditional tea and coffee fellowship. Pastor's wife, Angela Horpynchuk has presented to brothers and sisters a big cake (almost 15 kilos) named "Reformation."

Pictures: During Reformation Sunday celebrations in the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv.

October 24, 2007. Tavrian Eparchy meeting and Pastoral Conference took place in Kherson. The Eparchy Head, Pastor Oleh Stetsiuk has presented his paper "Divorce in the Pastoral family Consequences for the Pastoral Ministry." Having discussed the paper, congregations representatives have reviewed parish life and ULC issues.

Pictures: During the Tavrian Eparchy meeting and during the Pastoral Conference.

October 14, 2007. Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv has thanked the Savior God for wonderful fruit of the earth raised this year. The parish members have decorated altar area with fruit, vegetables and cakes that are truly gifts of the Lord and they thanked the Lord for them and especially for the souls that are harvested to Heavenly Kingdom through the Gospel of Christ.

Picture: Thanks be to God for earthly goods and for the eternal life in the Kingdom of God!

October 7, 2007. Sister in Christ Liudmyla Kyrychenko has received her first Holy Communion in the Lutheran Church. Sister Liudmylas has studied Luther’s Small Catechism and Bible in the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Kyiv. We wish sister Liudmyla many happe blessed years in the fellowship of the Lord!

Picture: Sister Liudmyla Kyrychenko.

October 2, 2007. Evangelism effort took place in Kam’yanets-Podilskiy. Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary of Saint Sophia Rector john Vogt, Pastor Richard Warnke of Thoughts of Faith and local Pastor Roman Andruntisv participated in evangelism. Pastor and laymen of the ULC have witnessed to hundreds of inhabitants of Kam’yanets-Podilskiy, distributed thousands of invitations and Christian books and journals.

Picture: During Evangelism effort.