Some stunning German dolls are on display at the German-American Cultural Center, found in the center of Gretna's Nationwide Register Important District, at 519 Huey P. Long Ave. In order to enhance this display, the Mates of GACC invites the public to attend a meeting on Sat. at 7 p.m, when guest speaker Suzette Kinchen will speak about German doll making.
The programme Saturday night will include a second guest speaker, artist Mary Ann DeBois Blanc of Metairie, who has her primitive art displayed at the center.
Blanc will speak about the circa 1724-26 original Louisiana German coast settlements of Karlstein, Augsburg, Mariental and Hoffen. Karlstein is often known as the Waterford location in the River Parishes.
There'll be discussions with the guest presenters and refreshments. There is no charge.
The GACC interprets the unique German immigrant contribution to Louisiana's history thru exhibits, lectures, programs and other educational activities.
The cultural center museum is open Wednesday thru Saturday from 10 a.m. To 3 p.m. At a price of $3 for adults, and $2 for seniors and kids over twelve. Call 504.363.4202 for full info.
Salem Lutheran Church welcomed 3 guests from its sister church body in Siberia at a dinner in Schmid Hall.
Guests included Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church Bishop Vsevolod Lytkin, the Rev. Dmitri Dotsenko and Natasha Sheludiakova, church musician of the Novosibirsk church.
The group was accompanied by the Rev. Daniel S. Johnson, pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Marshalltown, Iowa, and president of the Siberian Lutheran Mission Society.
Lytkin, who is self-taught in English, gave a PowerPoint show about the work of the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church, by territory the biggest Lutheran church body globally spanning from the Far East to Moscow.
Before the 1917 revolution, Lutherans composed 10 % of the Russian empire, but after the Bolshevik revolution and the purges of Joseph Stalin, all the Lutheran priests were either arrested or shot.
All churches were closed, most razed and some replaced by statues of Lenin. Some parishioners were sent to concentration camps and jails in Siberia.
After the decline of the Soviet Union, Lutheran Christianity restarted. The govt rebuilt one church building, St. Mary's in Tomsk, 5 years ago. The first building had been wiped out, replaced by a ferris wheel.
The Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church fights poverty in Russia, helping pauperised kids and offering a substitute for the high alcoholism rate following seventy years of Red oppression.It also established a graveyard in Yurga commemorating thousands who expired in that work camp.
Some Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastors have taught in various locations in Siberia in summer seminars, including the Rev. Larry Beane, priest of Salem Lutheran in Gretna.
The Rev. Peter Mary Rookey, a Catholic priest in the Servite order in Illinois, latterly returned to the West Bank to visit the 25th anniversary party of the founding of Mary's Assistants, a devotional group in Marrero with members throughout the area.
Known simply as Pa Rookey, he has been written about globally his many pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the last in 2005 at the age of ninety.
On the eve of the celebration, Rookey took some time to break bread with some Gretna supporters in a local restaurant. With gentle humour and keen intelligence, the 95 year old shared some of his personal stories with the group.
When questioned about his gift, he said "It is God's work, not mine He does all of the healing, I just pray", writes tagza.
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