Recent Events

Only blind following law directions led Edita Žiobienė, Child Defence Inspector, into scandalously lost legal quarrel with the Lutheran Priest who was acting in the girls favour.

A group of 24 parishioners from St. John’s Lutheran Church Hubbard, Iowa, spent a busy week in Palanga early in September. They came to supplement the strong financial support which the Iowa East District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has given to the building of the church and diaconal center in Palanga by their own manual labor.

German creator Ottmar Hoerl has represented an installation „Martin Luther Hier stehe ich“ ( Martin Luther-here I stand) in the market-place of Wittenberg (Germany).

Local government of Klaipėda district is seeking ways to remove the road crossing the churchyard of Kretingalė church. The request of town's community cannot be easily complied with, as the land which is planned to be built with new road is already used by private owners under contract of resort.

Evangelical lutheran church of Kretinga was full of young people on the sunny May 22nd morning. Youth from Klaipėda, Tauragė, Batakiai, Jurbarkas, Šilalė parishes gathered together to the youth service. After greeting with long-lost friends, all of them met in the church where Rev. dr. Darius Petkūnas and Rev. Jonas Liorančas said a service.

Valdas Ausra – pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, located in Oak Lawn (a southern Chicago suburb). He has been the pastor of this parish since 2001. The Lithuanian Lutheran parish is small, but wide-spread throughout the Chicagoland area. Here everyone is always welcome with love and warmth. The church is also a place that houses the “Spindulelis” day care center, a ping-pong club, a German club, as well as, a place that welcomes people looking to figure out the secrets of the Bible. The church is also a meeting place for the Lithuanian Association for Psychological and Spiritual Support.

The beginnig of July is especial time for evangelical lutheran parish in Batakiai — a small town in the west of Lithuania. It is a time when churchyard fills with children voices, tents, activities, etc. This year 11th time children summer camp took place in Batakiai.

Grace Rao, deaconess of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Human Care & World Relief, has been on an eight-day visit to Lithuania (27 April to 4 May). The main objective of her visit was to gather first-hand information about the Lithuanian Lutheran Church and social work carried out by the Church. Dcs. Grace Rao was especially interested in projects run by the Church aimed at helping women and children.

Problems related to Lutheran cultural heritage in western Lithuania have been an open secret for a long time, yet nothing had been done to resolve them. While carrying out a recent educational project on Lutheran heritage, partly financed by the department of cultural heritage, these problems became blindingly obvious.