Recent Events

The finalle of the precedentless case where officers of the Children’s Rights Ombudsman Institution of the Republic of Lithuania were behaving against a child.

Things which happened to Sakiai Evangelican Lutheran parish priest V. Kelertas who is 7 years in charge of public institution Sakiai Children foster home are well illustrated by a sarcastic saying: if you do good, you will be attacked, mockered, even judged. The oddest in this story is the fact that the priest who had taken care of homeless children and initiatived Children foster home foundation, given the institution a building, was whirlpooled into a several years marathon of unjustified accusations. Officers of the Department of children’s rights protection who have the duty to defend the young were acting against a child and a priest.

“Ten years ago the Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod entered into full pulpit and altar fellowship and this fellowship has already proved very fruitful in many areas of our church life,” stated Bishop Mindaugas Sabutis in a Vilnius meeting with Rev. Dr. Albert Collver, director of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) church relations and special assistant to LCMS President Matthew Harrison who officially visited the Lithuanian church on behalf of President Harrison. Included also in the visit on December 3, 2011 was a seminar with Lithuanian and Belarusian pastors.

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.