9 LDR aid to Ukraine
Restoration in Estonia Children get regular meals and attend summer camp in Tallinn, northwestern Estonia, thanks to the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Today there are about 50 child participants, who focus on healing, restoration and the question, “Who are you?” Beginning in the late 1990s, Avo Üprus, pastor, and the Peeteli congregation in Tallinn invited former prisoners, homeless children and drug users into their church, offering them with housing and meals. Üprus shares the congrega- tion’s philosophy: “We should restore a person, a human being and not put them into prejudiced boxes like criminals. … We need to start with giving and restoring respect.”
LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION/AVO ÜPRUS
In January, Lutheran Disaster Response sent $85,000 to partners in ACT Alliance, Hungarian Inter- church Aid and the Russian Ortho- dox Church to provide humanitarian assistance for nearly 20,000 people displaced by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The ELCA’s help “is criti- cal for those who are still in the con- flict areas, particularly in light of increased needs during the winter months,” said Vitaly Vorona, ELCA program director for Lutheran Disas- ter Response International. LDR is helping provide food, diapers, blan- kets, water, health kits, hygiene kits and psychosocial services for people who have been displaced from their homes. According to a Feb. 20 U.N. report, more than 1 million peo- ple are internally displaced within Ukraine.
Prayer for martyrs Procession to the cross
St. Andrew Lutheran Church, West Chicago, Ill., each year at noon on Good Friday engages in a bilingual (Spanish and English) Via Crucis procession, which is a dramatic re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross through the city streets and culminating in the sanctuary.
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After 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed by ISIS terrorists in Libya, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton wrote a Feb. 19 letter to His Grace Bishop Serapion of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, offering condolences and prayers. “Even in the brutality of their tragic deaths, they remained steadfast wit- nesses to Jesus Christ in a world con- sumed with hatred and violence,” Eaton wrote. “It is important that we remember the powerful sacrifices our brothers and sisters in the faith make daily for the sake of the gospel.” The ELCA holds the martyrs in prayer, “even as we ask God to redeem those who have fallen prey to the evils of terrorism,” she added.
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