[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Pastor Scheierman from Saratov to speak in western Canada

[Jerry Frank]

Speaking Tour by Pastor Alexander Scheierman from Saratov on the Volga River

Pastor Alexander Scheiermann, the pastor of the Lutheran congregations in 
and around the city of Saratov in the Russian Federation will begin his 
speaking tour of Alberta at Zion Lutheran Church in Bashaw on

Tuesday, April 29th, 2003 at 7:30 p.m..

The evening will begin with a potluck supper at 6:00 p.m.  Everyone is 
cordially invited to attend.

This is where the first Scheuerman(n)/Scheiermann families settled in 
Alberta from the village of Yagodnaya Polyana.  Now a cousin from Russia 
will visit them after 111 years. There will be a Scheuerman reunion this 
July for 300 descendants. If you wish to find out about the reunion you may 
contact Dennis Schulz at dennisandsharon at shaw.ca

His presentation will be translated sentence by sentence into 
English.  Slides will also be shown.

Additonal presentations:
1. Onoway at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 30th, 2003 - Trinity Lutheran

2. Barrhead -  at 7 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, Mellowdale,
(RR 1, Barrhead) - for directions phone 780 674 5801 - the church is a 
couple of miles east of Barrhead on the road to Westlock and then north a 
few miles on the road to Neerlandia).

3. Stony Plain - Thursday, May 1st, 2003 at 2 p.m. at the Pioneer Museum, 
5120 - 43 Ave.,

4. Evansburg - Thursday, May 1st, 2003 at 7 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church

5. Edmonton - Friday, May 2nd, 2003 at 2 p.m. at St. Matthew's Ev.Lutheran 
Church, 7607 - 89  St.

6. Edmonton - Friday, May 2nd, 2003 at 7 p.m. at All Saints Lutheran 
Church,  13850 - 119A St.

7. Calgary - Saturday, May 3rd, 2003 at 10 a.m. at St. Matthew's Lutheran 
Church, 66 - 7th St. NE

8. Coaldale - Sunday, May 4th, 2003 at 9:30 a.m. at Redeemer Lutheran 
Church, 2006 - 20th St.

9. Lethbridge - Sunday, May 4th, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. at Christ-Trinity 
Lutheran Church, 416 - 12  St. S.

This is the old area of Volga German settlement in Russia where, up until 
1941, there were about = million people of German origin who were almost 
all of the Catholic, Lutheran  and Reformed faiths. They were exiled to 
Siberia and Northern Kazakstan and during the last few decades some have 
returned to live in the area.   Pastor Scheiermann is on a speaking tour of 
Alberta and the Northwest USA. He is the dean of the Middle Volga Region 
of  the Evangelical  Lutheran Church - European Russia. His parents are 
both from the village of Yagodnaya Polyana and he was born near Omsk in 
Russian Siberia in 1967.

The purpose of the tour is to develop partnerships with congregations in 
North America.  As the Lutheran church building in Saratov was confiscated 
by the government in the mid 1930's and razed in the early 1970's, the 
congregation now needs to build a new church and a free-will offering will 
be received for this purpose.Much of the support for this and other church 
work in the other cities and villages in the area will have to come from 
North America Germany and other parts of  the world.

Horst W. Gutsche, pastor
Box 4842, Barrhead
Alberta T7N 1A6
Telephone: (780) 674- 3944


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca