The World Day of Prayer has become an important part of the calendar of church events in the Lutheran church here. On the first Friday in March women in many congregations of the CIS and Europe prepare a special worship service focused on one particular country. In 2014 that country was Egypt and in 2015 it was the Bahamas. It is wonderful to learn about and pray for a country that we, perhaps, have never and will never see; we learn to sympathize with other Christians in their struggles while not forgetting about the need to pray for our own countries. For that reason this year many of our congregations prayed particularly fervently for peace between Russia and Ukraine. At the same time the worship service was filled with the colors and music and (in some cases) food of the Bahamas while focused on the theme - “Do you understand what I have done for you?” (John 13.12).
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| Baku |
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| Chernogorsk |
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| Ephpatoria |
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| Kaliningrad |
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| Kharkov |
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| Kiev |
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| Lviv |
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| Odessa |
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| Omsk |
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| Samara |
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| Simferopol |
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| St. Petersburg |
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| Tbilisi |
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| Vinnitsa |
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| Vladivostok |
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