Cortright (Latvia) Update – June2022
06/29/22
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Charles and Connie Cortright
Cortright (Eurasia) Update – February 2022
02/16/22
Cortright_Latvia_Feb2022.pdf Click icon to open, read, download or print file. Dear chaplain, please pray for… Online = Impersonal, right? I used to think so, but every Monday I gather with my flock, the students of the English Studies program for a service of Word and prayer. My Zoom screen becomes a collage of people and places united by our common…
Cortright_Eurasia_Feb2021_2
02/15/21
Cortright_Eurasia_Feb2021_2.pdf Click icon to open, read, download or print file. EURASIA UNPACKED VIDEO We hope you enjoyed learning about our region’s work! We heard from a number of folks who said they hadn’t intended to watch it all when they opened it, but once it got going they watched it to the end. Thanks so much for viewing!…
Cortright_Eurasia_Feb2021
02/05/21
Click on link to see the video EURASIA UNPACKED The Eurasia missionary team has created a short video explaining all the current activities in the Eurasia Mission Region. Enjoy! Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0XlsL9LN4&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0TuGczmTj-MOkOTm2r3DREC7R0TQy-H5iSPJ_9_SACtWBFecpQBStNSAU Copyright © 2021 LCMS Eurasia Missionary, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in…
Cortright_Eurasia_Sept2020.pdf
09/30/20
OK, so Mailchimp told us to use something attention grabbing in our address line! It’s true; however, we usually see about a 48% open rate of our monthly letter. Thanks for opening us up this far and helping our self-esteem : ). The Lord be with you! In our letter this month I write about a visit…
Cortright_Eurasia_Aug2020
09/03/20
We’ve been in Wittenberg… Wittenberg’s Marktplatz and the Town Church where Luther preached We were in Germany filling in at the Old Latin School in Lutherstadt Wittenberg for about two weeks in the shadow of the Town Church where Luther preached during the Reformation; read about our time there and about our visit with Deaconess Kim Bueltmann…
Cortright_Eurasia_Jul2020
07/21/20
Graduation, castles, storks and a birthday Sunset on the shores of the Baltic Sea (around 10:30 pm). With the end of the semester, preparation for a new one begins. I will be teaching an introduction to dogmatics course next fall as the Luther Academy begins implementing its revised curriculum. My colleague, Dr. John Bombaro, is working…
Cortright_Eurasia_Jun2020
06/23/20
Our (almost) mid-Summer’s letter from Riga Mežaparks Lutheran Church in Rīga In communist times this little church helped keep the Lutheran Church supplied with pastors during a time when pastoral training in Latvia was impossible otherwise. Read the story about this little church in our letter. We are watching the events in our own…
Cortright_Eurasia_May2020
05/15/20
Keeping busy in Riga, Latvia One of the slides from my I Corinthians course (1 Cor 13:12). "Well, it’s Groundhog day…again." Life has taken on a sameness under the restrictions we’ve been under (like you, I’m sure!). Still, the month gone by has been busy with work on classes, conferences by Skype or Zoom and…
Cortright_Eurasia_Apr2020_2
04/20/20
God’s hand is o’er us The "altar" in our house church on Maundy Thursday. St. Paul wrote his Letter to the Romans to the "house churches" in the city. These were small congregations of Christians who met in homes rather than as a single large group. COVID-19 has closed all the churches in Rīga (as…
Cortright_Eurasia_Apr2020
04/15/20
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Cortrights back in Latvia Mar2020_COVID19 update
03/27/20
Back in Rīga and OK, Dear friends and supporters, I apologize for invading your email in-box twice in a week! But I have heard from a number of folks who were concerned that our recent newsletter of last week reported I was in Russia to teach a brief course at the Koltushi seminary and that they had heard that the Latvian…
Cortright_Eurasia_Mar2020
03/25/20
Dispatch from Rīga Our home in Rīga We moved into our home at 3 Anglikānu iela in Rīga, Latvia a little over a month ago, but right now I’m back in Russia! As a theological educator for our mission region my work takes me here and there–wherever we are invited to help strengthen Lutheran pastors…
Cortright_Eurasia_Feb2020
03/03/20
I never imagined I’d be standing here! St. Basil’s Basilica in "Red Square," Moscow Late in January I made a trip to Moscow to meet with a group of potential students for the Ingrian Lutheran Institute of Theology. It was a great class and a very interesting experience. They were excited to hear the lectures…
Cortright_Eurasia_Jan2020
01/23/20
Sorry we’re late, but look at what’s been happening! 5th century mosaic from Ravenna, Italy, where we were at Christmas. Dear friends in Christ around the world, Blessings on your January! Since you last heard from us, my chaplaincy work has taken us to Italy where we celebrated the Savior’s birth with fellow mission…
Cortright_Eurasia_Dec2019
12/17/19
Christmas greetings to you from St. Petersburg May the Lord bless your celebration of the Savior’s birth and give you a happy and healthy New Year in His grace. Пожалуйста Dear friends in Christ around the world, We are ending our service here in St. Petersburg and moving "next door" to Riga in Latvia….
Cortright_Eurasia_Nov2019
11/30/19
Happy Thanksgiving! Пожалуйста It was a busy month: election of a new bishop for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia (ELCIR); classes on the prophets and on the Wisdom & Poetry Literature of the Old Testament; and the news that we will be headed for Riga, Latvia after the first of the year. The Ev. Lutheran…
Cortright_Eurasia_Oct2019
10/28/19
It’s a bit later than usual, but please open my newsletter! Пожалуйста, open our October letter. The days are getting palpably shorter here in St. Petersburg! But there is lots going on that we are hoping to share with you about what we have been doing over the last month. We spent a week in Odessa…