Pastor Rudolf Blümcke

St. Petersburg, Russia;
Germany since summer 2005

Pastor Rudi Blümcke has been installed (early 2004) as Rector (President) of the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, Kasachstan, the Ukraine and middle Asia. The seminary is located in St Petersburg, Russia. He and his family returned to Germany in Summer 2005.

Here is a link to its web page, which began in March 2004, and currently is in Russian.

Rudi's e-mail address is rektor@novosaratovka.org

In January 2005 Pastor Rudi Blümcke resigned as Rector (President) of the seminary in St. Petersburg.
He and his family will return to Germany at the end of May or in June 2005.

In Germany, their address is:

Rudolf Bluemcke
am Husselbeck 3
29614 Soltau/Harber
Germany

Letter from Rudi, July 2005, English and original German

Pastor Rudi Blümcke served 1995-2003 as Pastor of the Krasnojarsk Lutheran Church in Krasnojarsk, Russia in the region of Siberia. During 1993-94 Rudi served as Intern Pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, SD. During that year, Rudi and his wife Kirsten also took the Stephen Series course at Our Savior's, and both were commissioned as Stephen Ministers. Rudi also took the Stephen Ministry Leadership Training Course in Seattle during Summer 1994.

Rudi grew up in Germany, and studied at Hermannsburg Mission Seminary there. Prior to his year at Our Savior's, his first Internship was in Brazil, Getulio Vargas. Following completion of his studies at Hermannsburg, since 1995 Pastor Rudi Blümcke has served as Pastor in Krasnojarsk. He was sent to Russia by the Hermannsburg Mission together with EKD (the Evangelical Church of Germany). Krasnojarsk is a city, and there is also the Kray Krasnojarsk. Kray is the region of Krasnojarsk, comparable to a state in the USA. The Kray Krasnojarsk is as large as Europe.

In Russia, Rudi's overall church organization is ELKRAS (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States -- which refers to the former Soviet Union with the exception of the Baltic states). ELKRAS divided Russia into two Eparchies, European Russia and Siberia, with their own synods. Each Eparchie is divided into several Propsteien (church districts). Rudi was elected Propst (District Pastor) for the Propstei Krasnojarsk, with 31 congregations so far. So ELKRAS has preachers and pastors in the congregations, a Propst for each Propstei, Superintendents for the Eparchie, and one Bishop for the whole ELKRAS. The Bishop is Dr. Georg Kretschmar, former Professor of Church History and New Testament at Munich. The Bishop is located in St. Petersburg. The journal der Bote, news magazine of ELKRAS, is also published there, with Fax number (007) 812 2183635.

For more information about Pastor Rudi Blümcke's work in Siberia, read his interesting essays, which follow below.

Kirsten Pahl was born 24 August 1967, and grew up in Waldmohr, Germany, not far from Kaiserslautern. Rudi Blümcke was born 13 November 1964, and grew up in the north of Germany (Soltau) not far from Hamburg. Kirsten and Rudi were married 29 June 1991 at Waldmohr. Kirsten and Rudi Blümcke now have two children. Jonathan was born 30 June 1993. Anna Maria was born 3 April 1995.

Pastor Rudi is distributing calendars, with the church calendar added. The Russian church calendar is so different that Pastor Rudi's congregation members are a little confused about when to celebrate which Sunday.

Note: The German versions are in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat).
If you need to get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader first, click here.

Postal address:

Rudolf Blümcke
Pastor der Ev:-Luth: Kirchengemeinde in Krasnojarsk
ul. Menjinskogo, 16a, kw. 109
660001 Krasnojarsk
RUSSIA

Tel/Fax: (007) 3912 440160 (personal)
Tel: (007) 3912 448568 (church)

Moving soon to St. Petersburg, Russia (Dec 2003/Jan 2004)

Pastor Rudi Blümcke visited Our Savior's August 3, 1997. He preached at church services that weekend, and spoke at a church potluck dinner held in his honor. Encouragement of Pastor Rudi's work is welcome, through prayers, e-mail messages, and financial support. As part of its 50th Anniversary jubilee year, Our Savior's presented some financial support to Pastor Rudi during his August 1997 return visit. As a practical matter, financial support reaches Pastor Rudi most smoothly and reliably by means of an electronic fund transfer though a bank. If interested in such details, please contact Pastor Rudi at the E-mail address indicated above, or contact or Pastor Don Lehmann at Our Savior's.

Pastor Rudi Blümcke is visiting Our Savior's Feb 26-27, 2004. Pastor Rudi Blümcke was just installed (2004) as Rector (president) of the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, Kasachstan, the Ukraine and middle Asia. The seminary is located in St Petersburg, Russia.

Last updated Thursday, November 3, 2005

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