Manfred Brockmann died 15/12/2023 at 11.30am (Vladivostok time)....we mourn and pray.......

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It is the wish of pastor Brockmann to publish this in this incomplete and imperfect form, in which we got it. Translation of “Deutsche Kulturtage Wladiwostok als Sozial- Kulturelles Projekt” F...

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Dear sister and brothers in Christ We want you to know that we the people of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are deeply concerned for you, our companion Chris...

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The German Culture Days have been carried out annually in Vladivostok since 1993 Organizers of the project are the congregation of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and its Pastor-Provost Manfr...

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Our church used to be a place of "high music" in Vladivostok for years. This corresponds to actual style of Lutheran Church.Now St.Paul has got a new concert Grand piano. This Grand piano was pre...

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When now writing this narrative reporting, I of course compare it with the last one given to you February 2017. Some things are still the same, but some have ...

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1.Finally, we have a photo (portrait) of our first important pastor, Carl-August Rumpeter... 2.Pushkin's city theater will stage a play about Adolph Dattan, chief of the trade house " Kunst und Al...

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Renee Radermacher and Brigitte Mampe came to Vladivostok for a special day in their life - the wedding day. The ceremony was held in St.Paul's August 22,2019. Out of gratitude and for a good memory t...

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Let me begin with two quotations... Gerhard Krodel in a letter March 3. 2003 “ Manfred, I do not think for a moment, that you are depressed or burnt out when you tell us, what...

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Ceremonial Easter service was held April 12 in st. Luke’s Evangelist community. Of course, not every member of community dared to join the service, but those who came shared not only Easter word, but ...

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Every evening – evening prayer at 18.30 Monday - Thursday ( Apr 9 ) - evening service at 18.30 Good Friday ( Apr 10 ) – evening service at 18.30 Saturday ( Apr 11 ) – Easter Night begins at 2...

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Manfred Brockmann Pastor of St Paul’s Lutheran Church Wladiwostok To Pilgrim Lutheran Church Benefaction Fund, Carmel Indiana Care of David Hunden Wladiwostok, Febr. 9.2020. BENEFACTION...

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When God will show us his help and love, he often chooses an unusual way. We received a not expected present at Christmas, which was made by little children in America. So we became aware, th...

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Theme: Liturgy The first days of any new year set many of us to thinking about our own lives, critically reflecting on where we are and where we are going. In the context of the Russian church, the ...

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Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has taken away the judgments against you... The king of Israel, the Lord, is in ...

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Our Swetlana Waschanowa has further improved the Childrens’ Camp before St. Paul’s. For this she has purchased for us a little house, which our Eduard then has constructed. There she is offering...

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Sermon for the 17th Sunday After Trinity, 13.10.2019 Sermon Text: Mark 9:17-27 Epistle: Romans 10:9-17 Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28 Hymn of the Day: Seek Where You May to Find a Way Hymn after th...

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While I am an ELCA pastor, my ministry in the former Soviet Union is supported through the cooperation of American and German Lutherans. ELCA Global Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran Mission of Low...

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The rain fell so hard and fast on the plastic roofing sheets that it was almost impossible to hear oneself think, let alone to catch what the teacher was trying to say. It was time to take a break, to...

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Last year (2018) the Days of the German culture were held under the theme of environmental protection. This year we have stepped a bit further and now we are trying to answer the question “Where is ou...

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We wish him good health and many more years of preaching. With his help and support we now can conduct a summer camp for kids and educate younger generation. We highly appreciate his work and may G...

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Even though you are now with God and can see what you believed and proclaimed your entire life, I still would like to personally speak to you. The conversation we had on the evening of December 13th...

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Perhaps the most famous work of art from Russia is Andrey Rublev's Old Testament Trinity. While to see the original you must travel to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, you can find copies of the icon ...

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Dear Springer Family, The death of our Siegfried Springer, my best friend, had impacted me deeply. I am so happy that I was able to meet with him in September of last year at Bad Sooden. (see phot...

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One of the challenges of serving in the Russian Lutheran Church is the use here of an older lectionary; it is based on a six-year cycle and each Sunday has a single, designated “preaching text.“ This ...

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The Far East deanery of our church lives out its life together in a very special way through the annual summer seminars that have taken place for over two decades on the shore of the Sea of Japan. Yet...

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We got by our new dean Bradn Buerkle and with his recommendation an invitation to “2019 International Camp Counselor Program” of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. “Young adults, who are nom...

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Bradn Buerkle, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has been serving in Russia since 2001. He was born in Plevna, Montana, USA. He finished summa cum laude from St. Olaf College i...

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September 28-October 6, 2018 Friday, September 28, 2018: 6:00 p.m. Organ Concert in St. Paul’s Church; Organist Lionel Avot from Paris, France Saturday, September 29, 2018: 5:00 p.m. Organ Conce...

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September 28-October 10, 2018 A favorite hymn that we sing at St. Paul’s is “God let us breathe, we are alive! .Our God does not want to destroy the earth, it is beautiful and good! " Environmenta...

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I was a bit worried as I embarked on my journey to the most distant of the deaneries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia, and Far East for their annual summer seminar. There were...

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“Our partnership is vitally important to our Companion Congregations in Russia.” This is the biggest single insight that Gary Teske gained from his participation in the annual summer seminar of the D...

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Lecturers Dean emeritus Manfred Brockmann (Wladiwostok) Dean Bradn Buerkle (St Petersburg) Preacher Nina Dmitrijewa (Wladiwostok) Gennadij Dmitrij (Wladiwostok) Pastor emeritus Dieter Grimm...

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Vladivostok, June 17, 2018 Dear William, Church services are over and in the two hours before the church concert begins I will have time to write you. You shouldn’t throw Omsk under the bus, but...

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Dr. Yoder and his wife Galina worked in our deanery from April 29th to June 1st, 2018 in St. John’s Lutheran Church Khabarovsk. Vladivostok, June 7, 2018 Dear Willian, I am going to answer your re...

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On Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018 Ludmilla Pedjasch passed away at the age of 76. We have lost one of our esteemed co-workers at St. Paul’s and a very valuable and lovely person who will be missed by...

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China is our closest neighbor and is only 100 kilometers from Vladivostok. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Vladivostok has for a long time good relations with Chinese Christians. On Pentecost Sunday 20...

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On Exaudi Sunday, May 13, 1992 after 57 years of repression a worship service was held in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, which was still a museum for the Russian War Fleet. That service 26 years ago was ...

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When now writing this narrative reporting, I of course compare it with the last one given to you February 2017. Some things are still the same, but some have changed and are in the process...

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Christ says ,”I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.” ( Revelation 1,18). These words are the theme for our church...

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This ceremony was a great joy for the deanery of the Far East. There were a lot of people who attended and many more who helped to make this ceremony a big success. Our preacher Nina Dimitriyeva, too...

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Saturday Nov 25. 2017. 17-00 Author’s Concert Manfred Brockmann Sunday Nov 26. 2017 11-00 Sunday of Eternity, commemoration of our deceased Sunday Dec 3. 2017 11-00 1 Sund...

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That was a great event, which proved again, how much people of our city Vladivostok love and esteem the musical style and tradition of our Lutheran Church according to St. Augu...

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There was a large celebration on this day at St. Paul’s Church with 70 people in attendance. It made Manfred happy that all of the congregations sent birthday wishes. It was very moving for Manfred ...

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3 Jubilees : 25 years Resurrection of the Lutheran Church in the Russian Far East 25 years return of St Paul’s Vladivostok 500 years Reformation by M...

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A Critical “Processing” of the Days in Omsk from April 19th to 23rd. A Voice from the Far East We spent some very interesting days in Omsk: consistory, Pastoral days, a conference entitled “500 Year...

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Manfred Brockmann is writing this article because he knows that Erhard Eppler was the top politican of the 70’s and 80’s . Erhard Eppler is 90 years old and Manfred Brockmann will be 80 shortly. Ma...

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These were very special cultural days for our St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Why? Because they dealt with the main problem and suffering of our Lutheran Church and our society in Russia. For 24 years w...

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Considered topic of this seminar was “Music”. But all changed to the topic “How Difficult and Challenging are the Relationships between People.” We invited people from all our congregations to our...

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Dear Schaude family! My “Obituary for Bishop Otto Schaude” which I promised to send to you is very important to me, because I always f...

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Vladivostok, August 28, 2016 Dear Mrs. Schaude, You are going to receive a lot of correspondence in the next few days and so I will not make this lengthy. You know that I have always held your hu...

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This year’s cultural days have a very difficult theme: “Persons Who Leave their Country: Why Do They Do This?” For 24 years, that is how long I have lived in Vladivostok, people have left us to go fro...

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Dear Reverend Brockmann and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, I congratulate you on this twentieth year of your annual Culture Days. You are to be commended for two decades of gathering ...

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I, who am here in Russia, have my own opinion about this horrible refugee problem. My opinion is in direct opposition to the so called Christians from our partner churches in Germany and America, who ...

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A remarkable book in Russian translation by Siegfried Springer, “Heaven is Nearer in Russia”, will come out in April of this year. It is his autobiography starting with his early life in Russia and co...

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Thursday. September 29th 6:00 p.m. Opening for the Culture Days with the theme of “People Who Leave their Country. Why do they do this?” 7:00 p.m. Thoughts and Opinions about this worldwide probl...

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We are calling them our “Lutheran Icons”. They are two works by Hamburg Artist Carolin Beyer . The first is titled “Christ the Risen King”. We profess in the Apostle’s creed that “he is seated at t...

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A remarkable book in Russian translation by Siegfried Springer, “Heaven is Nearer in Russia” , will come out in April of this year. It is his autobiography starting with his early life in Russia and ...

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She had an important and long history in the St. Paul’s Church, our Margaritha Michailova Pleschkova. She started with us on Easter of 2006, when she replaced our former Choir Director Professor Isol...

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It happened at the Annual Meeting of St. Paul’s in Vladivostok on Oculi Sunday, February 28, 2016. Ludmilla Iljinetschnaya Pedjasch was installed as the Head of Administration for the Deanery of the ...

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My dear Friend and Brother in Christ! I am honored that I am still getting mail from you, which has an impact on me little by little as I g...

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I, who am here in Russia, have my own opinion about this horrible refugee problem. My opinion is in direct opposition to the so called Christians from our partner churches in Germany and America, who ...

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Prologue: Sept 25.- Oct 7 “12 portraits from West and East” An exposition with photos and texts from Wladiwostok and Germany Thur...

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This was a very special seminar. There were participants from each of our 9 congregations. There were 36 persons in attendance including 4 lecturers (Pastor Braden Buerkle from St. Petersburg, Pastor...

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It all began in the middle of May 1992 at the first Synod of our Lutheran Church in Omsk, which at that time was called DELKRO (German Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Republics of the East. There ...

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In 2006 we received our first organ and it was a gift from Trinity Lutheran Church. Melbourne, Australia and conveyed to us by our good friend there, Hans Schroeder. Other Lutheran congregation...

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We reported about a concert back on November 3, 2010 entitled, “Music of Solitude”. Johann Sebastian Bach said, “The reason and goal of all music is nothing else than to glorify God and for the edifi...

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This is a letter, written on demand of the German evangelic journal “Chrismon” Vladivostok, March 5, 2015 ...

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Nuclear power and consumption - Vladivostok and Fukushima, 900 km 1) Vladivostok -- the wild, unruly port city in Russia's Far East. People live there as best they can. 2) Fukushima -- no doubt...

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An Anniversary with Church Music Director Volkmar Zehner from Kiel Church Music Director V. Zehner presented 3 Organ concerts during the German Cultural Days in October 2006 on the organ at St....

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It had been a relatively long time since Dean Brockmann had visited the St. Luke’s Congregation. What a pleasant surprise awaited him when he made a visit at the beginning of January. In the past one...

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October 1-12, 2014 “2014: 100 Years After the First World War; 75 Years after the Second World War; 25 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall Europe and Russia Today A joint project ...

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Dean Brockmann awarded the Federal Cross of Merit On Monday, October 6, 2014 the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ruediger Freiherr von Fritsch, bestowed on Dean Manfred Brock...

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Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Church of Vladivostok German Cultural-National Autonomous Office of Primorskij Kraj Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow Embassy of the Republic o...

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This concert was held on the Second Sunday after Trinity, June 29, 2014, exactly on the same day that signatures were being collected on the street “to safeguard our countrymen in DonBass from Ukraini...

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Our group consisted of 18 persons: Bishop O. Schaude and his wife Brigitte; Dean M. Brockmann and wife , Tatyana; Dean W. Jesse and wife; Dean Braden Buerkle and wife; Pastor W. Benzel and wife, Jele...

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All everyone talks about is Easter and it is almost a folk festival in Russia. But who really takes Good Friday seriously and observes it in the right way? For us Christians there can be no Easter wit...

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It most definitely has the largest land mass of any provost in the world but it only has nine congregations and most of them are located far from each other. The nine congregations are St. Paul’s Co...

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“Dostoyevsky – Ambassador for Russia in Germany” And as usual lots of music! These cultural days occurred three months ago, but the theme for those days have an ongoing relevanc...

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December 24, 2013 Dear Pastor Manfred! This letter will probably surprise you, but you amazed me so much in the single meeting that we had that I can not help but send you best wishes for t...

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We were once again at this beautiful place Buchta Witjas which is pretty far south from Vladivostok and located on the sea. We have been holding our Provost Seminar here for a couple of years. We we...

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For someone who has lived and worked in Russia for 22 years where loyalty, reliability, seriousness and soundness are not natural traits, I know your traits and for this reason I value Swabia. Russ...

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In the sequence of our concerts in St Paul’s we, Aug 23 and 24, we experienced two peaks: the us well known musician Grigoriy Baranov, Moscow,son of our music-manager Victor Baranov, played for us...

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The series “Foreign Organists Perform at St. Paul’s in Vladivostok” is now in its seventh year. Each year approximately four organists come and each of them gives three concerts in our St. Paul’s Chu...

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One of the best known classical hymns in our Lutheran hymn book comes from the German city Stralsund, which is located on the Baltic Sea. This past May we had a major visit from there from representat...

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This topic has a past history, and this topic has to be examined in a geographical manner, since the Russian city of Vladivostok is located only 100 kilometers from China. Provost Manfred Brockmann fr...

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Our Nina Dmitriyeva reported the following about the events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday that occurred at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. 1. Two large Easter concerts, one on Easter Sunday and an...

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Pastor Manfred Brockmann Pastor at St.Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok Dean of the Lutheran Church for the Russian Far East , Ul. Volodarskogo 8A-8, 690001 Vladivostok, Russia Pr...

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He is well know for us: Lionel Avot, organist at the Evangelic Church of “l’Etoile” in Paris, teacher at several academies of music, free lance collaborator at “Radio France”, Paris, gave for the ...

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This is the eighth time that we presented our city with this classical work of Lutheran piety. St. Paul’s Church was packed on the 1st and 3rd of February. Since this oratorio was sung in German, we ...

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Each year Nelly ensures that on the 25th of January we celebrate the Conversion of Paul, who is the namesake for St. Paul’s. One time we even staged a small play (see the website www.luthvostok.com Ma...

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Christmas is the festival that celebrates the joy of the birth of our Lord and Savior Christ here on earth. And the best expression of that joy is music and singing. We had music and singing in ou...

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Dec 24 18-00 Divine Service to the Holy Night Dec 25 11-00 Divine Service to Christmas Dec 24 18-00 Divine Service to the Holy Night Dec 25 11-00...

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John 3:36: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. This is the biblical message of our church for Christmas ...

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The connections between St. Luke’s congregation in Arsenyev and St. Paul’s church in Vladivostok are strong with members of St. Luke’s visiting Vladivostok off and on. Pastor Alexander Lapotschenko p...

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Where does one begin? The best way would be with this: 38 honored guests from all over the world came and among them were the following: four Bishops (Otto Schaude and his wife, of the Evange...

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This seminar, too, was special and not particularly “light.” The name itself witnesses to this: “Theological and Church Education in the Lutheran Church and, in particular, in Russia (goals, p...

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Two numbers of importance, they indicate the continuity and the importance of events in our city: The restoration of St. Paul's Church 20 year ago and since then its importance in the spiritual, socia...

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It all began as a small undertaking, but then became something quite significant. For some time Dean Brockmann had been searching for a retired German pastor who would be interested in relocating...

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This is the opinion of Dr. karl-Heinz Schell, Beijing, who met with Dean Manfred Brockmann on the 17th and 18th of June 2012 in Charbin. We met together with Chinese Christians. The photo shows ...

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The 16th Culture Days Vladivostok this year Sept. 27. – Oct 7. 2012 have the title “ 20 Years! – Resurrection of St Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok, ...

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Jesus Christ says: “For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life “ (...

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Sunday April 1 11-00 Divine Service Palm Sunday Monday April 2 18-30 Evensong Tuesday April 3 18-30 Evensong Wednesday April 4 18-30 Evensong wit...

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On Sunday, Januar 15. 2012, it again took place,- the “Festival of Christian Choirs Vladivostok”. As ever, in the Roman-Catholic Church, with which we have good relations for already nearly 20 ye...

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Our church is situated in the center of the city, and is nearly always open. Therefore many people are visiting it. Thus also during these Christmas- and New Year’s days. - Dec 18. A free-of-ch...

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In September the Spiegel-Television- team ( Hamburg/Germany) came to the Far East for to shoot here a film about the Lutheran Church in the Far-East-Deanery. We went also to Magadan and visited t...

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(15th Annual German Cultural Days for Vladivostok, October 2-November 20, 2011) For the 15th time St. Paul’s Church hosted the German Cultural Days for the city of Vladivostok. They took pl...

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Christmas Greetings for 2011 The Church ...

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Properly speaking it should be called the first stained-glass window , as it is devoted to the first person of the Trinity: to God creator and father. Also this window is created by the...

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This was already for a long time a wish and plan of us: a beautiful square before our St Paul’s Church. As our friends abroad could not help us, and also town and country did nothing, at last a...

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This was a very special seminar, as already announced by its title “Christian Churches in the Russian Far East” . And our lecturers corresponded to this: Dean Brockmann, Wladiwostok, and Pasto...

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Dear Fendler Family! Dear Michael, Stefanie, children and the dog! You have lived and worked with us here in the Lutheran Church for eleven years. Almost no foreigner in Russia has accomplished...

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1) Vladivostok -- the wild, unruly port city in Russia's Far East. People live there as best they can. 2) Fukushima -- no doubt an orderly, well administered city in Japan. But it was precisely the...

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Our Easter celebrations this year ended with special music. The concert on Easter Monday bore the title "Classical hymns of the Lutheran church." Our hymns are truly a particular treasure of our ch...

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Jesus Christ says: "I am he who lives. I was dead, and see, I am alive for ever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades." ( Revelation 1,18) Do we know what Hell and Death are like? ...

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This year we again experienced a profound Holy Week and an intensive Easter. There were devotions every evening in the church, and then Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. A few spent all of Holy Satu...

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Jesus Christ says: ” I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hell and Death” ( Revelation 1,18) Do we know, what Hell and Death are like?...

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In the church calendar Epiphany is still the time of light: at Christmas Jesus was born as a man and as time went on it became clearer and clearer that this person is the son of God! It is also...

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It was the idea of Dr. Nelly Sedova, our council president: We really ought to celebrate the name day of our church's saint. That is January 25th. On this day we focused on Paul and then again in a ...

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On December 18 and 19, 2010, our guest in Vladivostok was the Representative for Children's and Youth Work in our regional church, Vladimir Vinogradov from Omsk. He presented us in St. Paul's an int...

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We have already performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio seven times at St. Paul's Church. That's enough for now. This year we chose instead to have an extensive Christmas festival. But Christmas musi...

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The windows, depicting Christ crucified and the risen Christ, are the gift of a wealthy friend from Germany who was married at St. Paul's in Vladivostok on the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, Se...

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From October 28 to November 13 we had again our traditional German Culture Days in Vladivostok, which are are organized each time for our city by St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church . They stood ...

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September 23 to 20 dean Brockmann, by invitation of the German speaking congregation of Peking, was again in China. Then we are always , together with pastor Dr K H Schell, cultivating relations to...

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September 5. 2010. we experienced something very special : the Hamburg merchant Torsten Griess-Nega was married with his wife Heike by his old friend dean Manfred Brockmann in St Paul’s Vladivostok...

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Our Johann Sebastin Bach says: “ Ground, aim and end of all music is nothing else than the glorification of God and the recreation of the human spirit. Where this is not, there i...

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The 6th Sunday after Trinity, 11 July 2010, was a great day for St. Luke's Parish in Arsenjeff: its organ was dedicated. Dean Brockmann from Vladivstok came for the occasion and representatives from ...

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On the Church Days in Bremen he came to our stand: he wanted to visit us in Vladivostok. Who was this? It was obvious that he was a very special man, a wanderer, who since 1968 has made his lonely...

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St. Paul's Church in Vladivostok, built in 1907 by the German architect Georg Junghaendel (also involved in the building of the Berlin Cathedral), was from 1907 until 1935 the parish of most of the...

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This text is in the context of a discussion at the end of the last Synod in Omsk. It is true that it is awhile back, but the problematic and the dissent are still as fresh as they were then. Compare...

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Christ says: “ I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of death “ ( Revelation 1,18) My ...

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Vladivostok, in English "Lord of the East", was founded in 1860 in part by Germans who were in Russian service and were gorvernors, military leaders, scientists, artists, merchants and so on and who...

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Dean Brockmann visited the pastor in Peking already Dec 9 to 12. Then pastor Dr K H Schell from Peking paid us a visit in Vladivostok Dec 30. 2009 to Jan 7. 2010. Here he could assist in the performan...

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Again this was a great event: as already several years before the Christmas Oratory of J S Bach demonstrated our city , how festively the Lutheran Church can celebrate Christmas. Our choir, solo-singe...

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Of course this is a little exaggeration, but it expresses well the plan and necessity: Since long St John’s in the important city of Khabarovsk needs a real pastor for a long term! Nevertheless dean...

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Shortly just before Christmas I still try to write a little information letter abovå us in the Far East. Yesterday a friend of me said:I” You should write a bit about the ef...

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“ And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory” (John 1,14) My dear congregations in the Far East ! Did...

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At this year's General Synod, which comes every four years, the delegates from all of the member churches of the ELKRAS met in St Petersburg 17-19 September, except for the two regional Lutheran Churc...

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They were 11 days in the deanery of the Russian Far East,- the delegation of Trinity Lutheran Church under its pastor Jim Strasen. From September 4 to 7 they were in Vladivostok, and then they visit...

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August 12 and 13 dean Brockmann and his wife Tatjana were guests with the archbishop of the Lutheran Church in Latvia, Janis Vanags . Janis Vanags is not unknown in the deanery of the Far East: he al...

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From August 21 to 26 a group of 24 Germans paid us a visit in Far East. This was an event of great importance, because within were two persons with high merits for the Lutheran Church in the Far East...

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August 28 and 29 something very special took place in St Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok: we heard music, which was neither Lutheran, nor orthodox, nor only Christian, nor Russian or Europea...

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This may a bit illustrate the huge distances , with which our church in Russia has to come along: Shanghai is nearer to Vladivostok than St Mark’s Lutheran chu...

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June 27 dean Brockman was again invited to the great Islamic summer festival , the Sabantuy. St Paul’s Lutheran Church has already since long ago very friendly relations with the Islamic community...

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They have already a long and glorious tradition, these seminars of the Far-East Deanery: this was already the sixteenth ! Again it took place on the Russkiy island, and though weather this time was n...

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From June 10 to 16 the dean of the Russian Far East visited his most far away congregation 2.800 km north-east of Vladivostok, on half the way to Alaska : St Mark’s Lutheran church , Magadan, and it...

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The tradition of our organ concerts with German organists is going on: June 17.19. and 21. the Hamburg organist Dagmar Witt played on the organ of St Paul’s Vladivostok. Over all she impressed by her ...

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From May 20 to 24 this year the 23rd German Evangelical Kirchentag (Church Day)took place in Bremen. This meeting always attracts great attention, because it proves to be a remarkable forum not onl...

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The times get harder, but “behold, we live” ( 2 Cor 6,9), and time and again we are reached by signs to show us, that there lie blessings on our church. At Easter, the feast of the resurrec...

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April 1 and 3. and 5. the “director of church music” organist H J Schnoor, Luebeck Germany, gave three great concerts at the organ of St Paul’s Vladivostok: J. S. Bach, D. Buxt...

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For nearly 17 years I have lived and labored as pastor and dean in Vladivostok. How did I come to be here? This has been a genuine historical adventure. First: I was born on the 20th of August ...

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Both congregations are nearly 3000 km north-east of Vladivostok, that’s half the way to Alaska, and therefore it is not so easy to visit them, Dean Brockman was there last time only in December 2007....

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As every year so also this time: the World’s Prayer Day was a great and happy event in St Paul’s, Vladivostok. Our women had prepared it with much love; Texts, pictures and songs of Papua-New-Guinee...

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The traditional Culture Days of St Paul’s this year took place Nov 1 -15, for the 15th time. Aa always much music ( this time 10 concerts), again a literary center ( this time Hwermann Hesse), exposi...

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This year in St Paul’s the days around Christmas and the new year were exceptionally lively: besides Divine Services, one especially for children , meetings of the young people in our church, and ove...

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Alexander Lapochenko, ordained to a pastor at our synod assembly in Omsk October 26 (see website Noc..13.08.) , has been introduced by dean M Brockmann on the last but one Sunday of the church-year, ...

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From November 18 to 20. dean Brockmann was a guest in the “Lutheran Church in Korea”, in Seoul, which had invited him to its 50-anniversary. The Lutheran Church in Korea has a partnership contra...

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On 23th Sunday after Holy Trinity, October 2008, our preacher Alexander Lapochenko was ordained to a pastor in St Luke’s Lutheran congregation Arsenyev by bishop Kruse under assistance of archbishop ...

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An extraordinary culmination of our this year’s culture days were the organ concerts of Henner Schwerk (Germany) and Lionel Avot (France) November 2.,5., 6.and 7. in St Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivos...

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A. THE GENERAL AREA The times were harder. One could see it in the finances and people. -- For four months the Area has received no more money from the USA. We are in debt. At the end of the ...

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On October 5. in St Luke’s Lutheran congregation the festival of “Thanksgiving Day” was held in a Divine Service together with the congregation of the Evangelical Christians “ Love of Christ” of Ar...

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There are two answers to this question. 1. a historical answer and 2. a systematic-theological answer. The historical answer concerns the question: "How did it happen, how is it, that there is a L...

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He is already living here for 16 years, and measured by cities as Moscow or Petersburg deep and far away in the country, but so deep in the genuine, sympathetic R...

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Viktor visited our Divine Service for more than 10 years. He never took part in Holy Communion, he knew: I don’t rightly belong to the congregation. But God’s Wo...

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August 17., 13th Sunday after Holy Trinity, we had an interesting guest in our Divine Service: the Tartu professor of history Aadu Must. Prof Must is, as nearly all Estonians, a Lutheran., and h...

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Long ago Helmut Krehl is a well known friend for us: he has his great merits, that St Paul’s now gets its three wonderful bells. He organized all: To cast the bells in the German fi...

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On August 10.08, 12th sunday after Holy Trinity, we had a very joyful surprise in St Paul’s: Our Ksenya Romanova appeared with her husband Mikhail in our Divine Service. They ...

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Yesterday, August 6. 08 they were unloaded before St Paul’s: the three church-bells, which were cast for us nearly one year ago in the bell-foundry “Bachert” in Karlsruhe, Germany. They had to ...

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The year 2008 is in Russia declared as “Year of the family”. Under this sign the “sisters” of St Catherine’s Lutheran Congregation, Komsomolsk, have started a new cooperation...

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July 30. the periodical meeting of the coordination-counsel for social and religious organizations with the town-administration of Arsenyev took place. In the ...

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14 youngsters of the scout-work of pastor Thomas Grote, Irkutsk, arrived in Vladivostok by the Transsiberian railway on July 27. 12 o’clock under their guide Yelena Cherkas...

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In the years-long history of our Jurisdiction seminars this Seminar had one major difference: for the first time we worked without lecturers from foreign nations. (The two from Germany ...

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On invitation of our partner-church dean Brockman and bishop Kruse were together in the USA from June 2 to 23. They visited at first the ELCA “headquarters” in Chicago, where they met with the Con...

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We prepared it more than two months, and then we had the performance on May 2.08: The “Mass in b-minor” of J S Bach. In spite of the May holidays, when many leave the city, St. Paul’s Church was full ...

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From April 18. to 21 dean M Fendler from Novosibirsk was a guest in St Paul’s Lutheran congregation Vladivostok. He preached on sunday “Kantate” in our church, took part in congreg...

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On Maundy Thursday, the 20th of March 2008, three days before Easter, our Rainer married his Eleonore here in Vladivostok. Rainer Muus has been closely tied to our St....

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At the beginning of 2006 we received our first organ as a gift from Australia, at the beginning of 2008 we received a second organ as a gift from Germany. Organist Kerstin Wolf came from Hamburg...

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On Wednesday the 19th of March there arrived here: Ludmilla Anatoljewna Golumitschaja to spend with us an entire year for her practicum and as a vicar to live, to learn and to labor. Her mentor is Pa...

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My dear congregations in the Far East Deanery! Dieses Jahr moechte ich Euch gruessen mit einem Osterlied von Martin Luther This year I would like to greet yo...

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At the invitation of the provincial administration of Primorje Kraj a conference took place on the 24th and 25th of January 2008 in Arsenjeff for administrators and various social organizations to...

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As in past years we thank God for our loyal, loving and caring friends and partners in America for the strength to provide a summer camp for our young people and children, far from the noisy city at a...

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On his visit of St Mark’s Magadan, dean Brockmann also came to its branch-congregation in Sokol. Here, 45 km away from Magadan, he experienced a very delightful surprise: the congregation grows i...

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Dec 22. and 23. we again performed the “Christmas Oratorio” of J S Bach in our St. Paul’s Church. This is already , four years long, a good, well known tradition in our town, w...

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This was great day in St Paul’s: there in Christmas time, Dec 27. the Chamber Orchestra of the Vladivostok Philharmonic Society played the “Christmas Concert”: of Arcangelo Corelli, the “Concert...

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On Saturday, January 5.08., in the Roman-Catholic St Mary’s Church we again celebrated the traditional Festival of Christian Choirs. This is already since 10 years a ecumenical e...

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Since September 2004 Alexander Lapotschenko has served in St. Luke's congregation in Arsenjeff. Before that, from Decembver 2003 until July 2004 he was in St. Matthew's congregation in Tschita and af...

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The Jurisdiction Far-East is the largest provost in area of the Regional Church "Ural-Siberia-FarEast". From Vladivostok to St. Mark's parish in Magadan the distance is more than 2,500 kilometers (on...

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From Sept 29 to Oct 9 St Paul’s Church celebrated – within the German Culture Days, which we already for 14 years present to the city,- three great jubilees: the beautiful brick-building of St Paul’s ...

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May be, that’s not always the case,- especially when you think of the “music” in our busses,- but that is reality in our churches. There this, what our great organist and choir-master Joh...

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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok German Embassy Moscow CULTURE DAYS VLADIVOSTOK Sept. 29. – October 9. 2007 Three Jubilees of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok 1907 – ...

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On Tuesday, September 6., we had an important visit in our St Paul’s church: Christian Dietz, great-grandson of Paul von Unterberger. Paul von Unterberger was one of the first and most important ...

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From time to time the American general consul, Thomas Armbruster, is attending Divine Service in St Paul’s. Yesterday, Sept 7., he brought a big group of tourists in our church. 65 Americans, many ...

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At Christmas 2006 the German journalist Elke Windisch published in two well known German newspapers a big report about St Paul’s Vladivostok. That led to consequences: A firm in sout...

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On the reception in honour of the 70.birthday of dean Brockmann, August 20.,in St Paul’s very surpisingly appeared our Wolodja Wagner. That was for the whole congregation a great ...

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From May 31. to June 3. the Synod Assembly of our partner-church CSS took place in Kansas, KS. Dean Brockmann and his wife Tatjana were invited guests. Again it was very impressing to what...

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On Sunday Exaudi, May 20.07, in Omsk in a solemn Divine Service dean August Kruse was introduced in his ministry as the bishop of the “Evangelical-Lutheran Church Ural, Siberia, Far East” . At...

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The relation between the deanery Far-East and the Central-States-Synod (Kansas and Missouri) is old, it began already in 1994 under the late bishop Charles Maahs. Since then partnerships ...

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Representatives of St Paul’s Lutheran Church were invited to take part in the mourning day “Yehern”, with which the Armenian Church commemorates the genocide on the Arm...

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I grew up in a little village in the Magadan territory. In the time of the SU the theme “religion” was a nearly completely forbidden one. In school they presented us “religion” as a very old phenome...

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Also this year again: Every evening Passion-Prayer, then the night before the resurrection of Christ in the church, then the Easter-Vigil at 6 o’clock in the morning and after this the Easter-Break...

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Music, singing, that was already always of high importance for us, that belongs to the good Lutheran tradition.. Since 1992 we in Vladivostok are working on the creation of a Lutheran hymn-bo...

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Life and Divine Service in St John’s Lutheran congregation, Khabarovsk, is not so easy after the leaving of the preachers Liliya Maieranova and Victor Hoppe. But now this congregation obviously s...

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The risen Christ says: ”I am He, who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.” (Revelation 1,18). My beloved congregations, ...

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Oh Lord, our God, incline graciously you face To us, who are exhausted by suffering, struggles, and need. Your word has the power to move the mountains; Before you stones are like melting wax...

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On Passions-Sunday Judika, March 25.07., St Paul’s Lutheran Church performed a choir-concert. Very many inhabitants of our city, who know and esteem St Paul’s Church as a place of sp...

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End of November last year we bought it, the new congregation apartment of St Catharine’s Komsomolsk, and now they had a festival Divine Service with dean Brockmann in the new rooms on Sund...

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On Februar 24. 07. in the church-center of the St . Luke’s Ev.-Luth Congregation of Arsenyev a seminar took place for the church leaders of the city. Aim of the seminar-program wa...

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Up to now he gave only a choir-concert with some organ music ( memorial-Sunday for the dead, Nov 26.06), or he performed with us the Christmas-Oratory of JS Bach (Dec 19. and 20. 06), und of course th...

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December 19 and 20. the Christmas Oratorio of J S Bach was again performed in St Paul’s Vladivostok. This is now already the third years and it shows, that the performing of this great religious mu...

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In spite of the fact, that she three times promised to work in Magadan still for five years, and only after this was ordained to a pastor , the preacher A V immediately after her ordi...

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On the memorial Sunday for the dead or the Sunday of eternity, Nov 28., St Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok gave an organ- and choir-concert. It was at the same time the debut of our new choir condu...

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We worked more than 4 years for it, and now at last we arrived: St Catherine’s Lutheran congregation found an apartment and could by it Nov 21 together with dean Brockmann, who trave...

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The invitation to the inauguration of the church center in Abakan brought dean Brockmann the impression of a living Lutheran congregation.- But in the countryside he g...

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And again this year: Let’s give the city a festival! – Culture Days of St. Paul’s Church in Vladi-vostok from September 20 to October 1, 2006, with the theme: “Freedeom is a New Religion – the Rel...

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This paper is the plan for an address to the conference of the Russian Orthodox Church held in Khabarovsk on September 19.2006. The author apologizes for not talking of all those persons merited i...

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Without any doubt the organ concerts of V Zehner (Hamburg, Germany) are the most outstanding events of the this year culture days of St Paul’s, Vladivostok. For a long time we already...

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From September 19 to 21 in Khabarovsk under patronage of patriarch Alexi II a conference “Christianity in the Far East” was held. On invitation of the Russian Orthodox Church dean Brockmann gave a l...

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September is always the best time for bible-camps and youth-excursions. This year our youngsters made their excursion to the south of Primorye. Not far away from the Korean an...

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On his one-week hiking tour through Olkhon, biggest island of the Baikal- lake, dean Brockmann made an important experience: the country, our Lutheran Church in Russia l...

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St Matthew’s Lutheran Church is far away from Vladivostok: 2 days and 3 nights by the Transsib. Therefore it is not so easy to visit it. But now the dean of the Far East could visi...

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This is already the 14. great seminar for the congregations of the FarEast Deanery,- a sign for the fact, that we, in our Lutheran Church, take education-work for very serious! ...

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It began July 13 and will go to July 23: the 14. seminar of the Far East Deanery.. As always it serves the in-service training in theological and practical questions in the 8 congregations of the dean...

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Pastor Carl-August Rumpeter is one of the very great persons in the history of St Paul’s Lutheran Church of Vladivostok. He worked in it from 1880 to 1912, 32 years! Our city commemorates this man up ...

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From July 1 to 4. we had in St Paul’s, Vladivostok, an important guest: Gerhard Hoss, pastor of the German speaking congregation in Seoul. Relationship between the deanery of the Far East and t...

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What Gerhard Krodel was and is for me. Let me begin with two quotations. Gerhard Krodel in a letter March 3. 2003 “ Manfred, I do not think for a moment, that you ...

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The Russian Far East is already far away, but still farther is Magadan: half way between Vladivostok and Alaska! Visits therefore are very important. The little brave c...

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September 16.1997. St Paul’s congregation in Vladivostok got its church back, and we celebrated this on Sunday Exaudi, May 28. But nevertheless the repair works are not yet finished. Alexander...

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On Sunday Exaudi, 28th of May St Paul’s Vladivostok celebrated in a solemn Service its Resurrection. It was at the same time the resurrection of the Lutheran Church in the Russian Far East, and all o...

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May 23. and 24. dean Brockmann in a delegation of the Vladivostok consuls visited the town of Su-Fun-He in China. There in the city-administration they did not know , or didn’t want to, anyt...

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The time of Lent was again a deep experience for us: every evening a passion-meditation, on Maundy-Thursday the celebration of the Lord’s Last Supper, -we were sitting tog...

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We are already well known in the city for our concerts. Last Christmas we performed the Christmas Oratorio of J S Bach. Now, at Easter, people could hear in our church in three conc...

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On April 20./21/ and 22. 6 o’clock pm St Paul’s Lutheran Church will again give an Easter Concert to the city of Vladivostok. Compositions of J s Bach and W A Mozart, whose 250th birt...

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What one has to do with the other ? Simply this: Hans Schroeder, a member of a Lutheran Church in Melbourne, Australia, found us in the internet, was captivated for what was written...

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by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann Lessons and sermon texts: I Samuel 2, 1-2, 6-8a; I Corinthians 15, 1-11; Mark 16, 1-8 Dear Congregation! “The glorious day has appeared!” We just sang those words...

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It has become a goof tradition in St Paul’s to bless the children, not only in Divine Service, but also before the beginning of the school year and when going out to one of our Children ...

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This was not a seminar, where interesting lecturers talk with us about interesting subjects, and then all part, and what does this effect in our congregations? No, this time we ...

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St Paul’s Vladivostok is well known for its concerts, all over the town, and that already for many years. And already since some years we perform the Christmas Oratorio of J S Bach in our town. B...

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Message at Christmas and the New Year from the Dean of the Far East District the Rev. Manfred Brockmann “But when the goodness and lovingkindness of God our Savior appeared, he sav...

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Dear Congregation of St Catherine’s in Komsomolsk! How glad I was, when you addressed to me with the request: ”Please write us Christmas-greetings for our chur...

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During the “Culture-Days” in Vladivostok, October 25 – November 4, St Paul’s Lutheran church again was an important place of meeting. Three concerts, an open celebration of the Reformation day and a...

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The hospice is a place, where people of our city can die in peace. They are people, who have no longer any home, people from the street, but also people who are no longer visited by their relat...

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How I was pleased with reading,- after my coming home from Australia,- the article of our Nina Dimitrijeva! How well she gives expression of our all’s feeling : it is true that w...

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Because they found our website so interesting, the Lutheran Trinity Church of Melbourne took up contact with St Paul’s Vladivostok. In consequence dean Brockmann and his wife made their holydays in A...

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A Report by Ludmilla Pedyasch The problem of the confessions of faith of denominations is a very contemporary issue in our country. People want to believe in something. Statistics indicate...

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As a faithful reader of your Church Messenger I would like to describe for other readers how the work with older people in St. Paul’s congregation in Vladivostok, where the Rev. Manfred Brock­mann ...

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From the 15th to the 22nd of July the Bishop’s representative of the Regional District Urals-Siberia-Russian Far East visited our District. He was able to begin his visit by participating in the conc...

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They already have a long tradition, these seminars. This one was already the 13th. Usually they are held twice a year. They not only serve our continuing education needs, but they also help us not ...

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Summer 2005 was announsed as a time of progressive health and spiritual outdoors activity in St.Mark's congregation.Since May 20th active members together with their pastor spending nearly every morni...

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They have already a long tradition, these seminars. This is already the 13th, and normally they are held two times a year. Not only do they serve the advanced training, but they also help us, not t...

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by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Vladivostok Text: John 1: 35-42 Dear Congregation! We have already sung today a great deal about the Church: in our main hymn,...

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The government of Primorye and its department for questions and problems of the different nationalities and confessions under vice-governor A.W.Smirnov invited for its conference of this year to ...

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On its general assembly, June 19, St Paul’s elected a new church-council president: Ludmilla Pedyash.( on the photo with a rose). The previous president, Prof. Isolda Semskova, will teach for o...

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On invitation of the Vladivostok Imam Abdullah and the president of the Islamic Community in Primorye, Rif Charissov, dean Brockmann June 25.took part in the celebration of the Sabatuy...

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This Divine Service at the sea, combined with a congregation’s excursion, is an old tradition of St Paul’s. Normally it is held at Pentecost. But this time we made it on the third Sunday after...

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May 9. to 13. 05. dean Brockmann was staying with the “Lutheran Church in Korea”, with which there is a partnership since some years. November 27. 03. an agreement on Mision-Cooperation was...

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Already in 2001 and 1002 he was with us and put stone on stone in our church. He did it all for nothing. He lived in his church. He was for us nearly as a little saint. For who u...

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First impressions of the General Synod Assembly of the ELCROS April 25.-29.2005. in St. Petersburg “The way of our church into future”. Well, where goes our Lutheran Church in Russia? ...

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by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Vladivostok Dear Congregation! “Christ has arisen from all of the torments,” we sang as the Sermon Hymn today, and Christianity has ...

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Dear Congregations in the Far East District of the Lutheran Church in Russia! Just as last year the Easter Gospel ends this year with the words: “And they ran out quickly and fled from the tomb, fo...

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On sunday Sexagesimae, January 30, pastor Victor Vassilyewich Tselinko celebrated his last Divine Service in his congregation of St Luke’s, Arsenyev. Dean Brockmann and the congregation gave ...

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Our seminars already have a long tradition; they are held almost twice in every year. We already reported about the last major Summer Seminar held in July on this web site. At that time we had guest...

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After we had already once presented Bach’s great work on Christmas Day, we performed it again in our church on January 9, the First Sunday after the Epiphany. That really made good sense because the ...

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Already at Christmas our website gave a picture of St Paul’s as a place where people not only celebrate Divine service, but are also meeting for many other events of life: there was the perfo...

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Dear Members and Friends, The hymn sung just before this sermon was written by the great Russian philosopher of religion and poet, Vladimir S. Solovyev. Perhaps some of you wondered, while singi...

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It is so wonderful that our church is no longer only a house of worship but, instead, is becoming a place of life of the congregation and the city. That was especially clear during this year’s Christ...

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“ And the word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (John,1,14) “ For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to give the light ...

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Saturday, Dec 18. dean Brockmann was a guest in the Lutheran congregation of St Mary’s in Ussuriysk. We celebrated Divine Service with Holy Communion, and there were two baptisms and a confir...

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Also this year St Paul’s Luth. Church will perform the Christmas Orarory of J S Bach. This wa already last year a great cultural event in our town. Vladivostokians know how intimatel...

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“But you, Bethlehem in Ephrathah, small as you are…among Judah’s clans, out of you shall come forth a governor for Israel, one whose roots are far back in the past, in days gone by” (Micah 5,1). ...

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This trip was a significant event because Dean Brockmann had not been able to visit this distant congrega-tion, which lies almost 3000 km or about 1800 miles from Vladivostok, for almost two years. D...

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Officially they are called “German Culture Days” in Vladivostok, but they are just as well a church event, for every year our St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, along with the German Honorary Consul, is the ...

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Sermon by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann, Pastor, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Vladivostok, on October 31, 2004 The Festival of the Reformation Text: Romans 3: 21-28 Dear Congregation! Toda...

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Dear Congregation! We just sang a hymn which sounds terribly sad and depressing: “In the midst of life we are surrounded by death.” Should we be singing something like this in Russia? People have...

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A report by Svetlana Vashnova, Director of the Sunday School and Youth Activities at St. Paul’s Church From the village of Lukyanovka we climbed the second-highest mountain in Primorye, the ...

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Vladivostok, 13 April 2004. Dear Friends! You have had to wait for a long time for this newsletter. I have started to write it several times. But then it seemed to want to become such a caref...

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From July 7th to 17th the Far East District conducted its major Summer Seminar, again, as last year, on the island Russky in the Sea of Japan. Our seminars have a long tradition over the years in o...

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Again in 2004 The Major Summer Seminar for all the Congregations of the Russian Far Eastern District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States From July 7th to the 17th the...

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by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann Texts: Romans 11: 33-36; John 3: 1-8 Today is the festival of the Holy Trinity, of the Triune God. – God, yes, who is this? About this question there have bee...

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From June 2 to 29 Michael Huggins was here again, not simply as a guest, but rather as teacher and evan-gelist. We have known him for a long time. Already back in 1999 he was in Nachodka, and th...

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The Dean of the Russian Far East District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russian and Other States Visited Friends and Partners of the District in the Central States Synod of the Evangel...

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Continuing a worthy tradition, the Pentecost Service of St. Paul’s Church was held on May 30, 2004, was conducted at the ocean. The entire congregation traveled out there; the altar was set up from s...

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On Holy Trinity Sunday, June 16, 2004, an 80-year-old lady appeared at our church in the Service. It was Ann Hawkins, an English woman, but, at the same time, a person with roots in Vladivostok. ...

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by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann Text: Acts of the Apostles, 2, 1-18 Dear Congregation! Today is a special day: PENTECOST, THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH. We all know that. And for years now, s...

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Easter V (4th Sunday after Easter) Text: Colossians III, 12-17 Dear Congregation! It is really quite unique for me to write a sermon to you from such a distance. I certainly notice how fa...

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The holiday of May 1st - Celebration of Spring and Labor took its place in Vladivostok. Sunday school of St. Paul’s Church always takes an active part in city events and actions. On the May Day 2004 ...

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Dear Congregation! “Christ, again crying out with a loud voice, gave up his spirit.” Christ died, he is killed, he is dead. What should we do? Simply continue to live as usual? Well, we do ...

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“Christ is risen/from all his pain/about this we should all be happy/Christ wants to be our consolation/Lord have mercy.” Thus Christianity has been singing for millennia. That’s the way we sing a...

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at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Vladivostok April 11, 2004 by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann Pastor and Dean of the Russian Far East District Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Dear friends throughou...

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from the District Dean, the Rev. Manfred Brockmann, to the Congregations and their Members in the Lutheran Church in the Russian Far East EASTER 2004 Dear Fellow Christians in the Distr...

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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Vladivostok April 8, 2004 by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann Pastor and Dean of the Russian Far East District of the Lutheran Church in Russia Text: 1 Corinthians 11:23-...

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Housekeep and handicraft “master classes” are taken place in St.Mark’s congregation in Magadan. During friendly educational activities people learn how to fix old cloth or to make several simple but ...

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February 27th - March 5th our dean Brockmann made a "multiregional" trip to visit St.Johann congregation in Khabarovsk and – what is so important – a distant St.Matthew's congregation in Chita.You ha...

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The first day of spring had a great and spectacular art evening – a public event in honor of famous Polish composer Frederic Chopin's anniversary ( 1810 –1849 ) took its place in St.Paul's church. T...

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A lecture delivered by the Rev. Manfred Brockmann at the Philosophical Lectures in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Vladivostok October 4, 2003 as part of the German Cultural Days 2003 Ladie...

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On Christmas Day 2003 the joyous music of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio filled St. Paul’s Church in a performance by the Church Choir, several soloists, and an instrumental ensemble. Every seat was tak...

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At the Service on the First Sunday in Advent the newly-elected Congregation Council of the St. Paul’s Church was installed in a special ceremony. It had its first business meeting already on Dec...

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Symposium on the Future of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States (ELCROS) on December 18 and 19 2003 in Novosaratovka near St. Petersburg Dean Brockmann (Vladivostok) delivered...

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First Christmas-Day , December 25.2003. 17 o’clock , St Paul’s Lutheran Church Ul. Puzhkinskaya 4: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH CHRISTMAS ORATORY ...

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is the congregation of St Matthew’s , Chita, waited already a long time, exactly 3 years and 11 months: at last it now has a preacher and minister: ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH LAPOCHENKO,- today, December...

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Far East Russia Propst made a guest visit to the Lutheran Church of South Korea (LCK) Far East Russia Lutheran congregations propst, pastor Manfred Brockmann visited Seoul November 24 – 29th. T...

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News from St.Johann congregation (Khabarovsk). There were a plenty of events during this October in our area. During the end of September – beginning of October our congregation’s kids club members...

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News from St. Marie congregation (Ussurijsk) YOUTH SPORTS SUPPORT. We are cooperating with several kids sport groups. So, our personal donations fund allowed us to support the “ Locomotive” socc...

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Why do we write about this seminar? Because of many participants who are familiar with other congregations of Lutheran Church of Russia and really think – it is so good that there is a church that doe...

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St. Mark’s congregation ( Magadan ) takes an active part in project “There is a confidence” development. Main subject of a program - social activities against drugs, almost all the protestant chu...

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A new Christian pop-rock group appeared in Arseniev ( primorsky region ). Some young and ambitious people are getting together in creative field – we will keep in touch and probably pretty soon a ne...

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