🔥 Youth Alpha is starting! 🍕✨ Have you ever wondered: If any of these questions speaks to you, even just a little, you are warmly invited to the Youth Alpha course, beginning: 📅 Saturday, 13 June🕓 at 16:00📍 in the fireplace room on the third floor of the parish house beside St Elizabeth’s Church in Pärnu What is…

On 7 June, Veijo and Anna-Maija Olli were solemnly commissioned at St Elizabeth’s Church as missionaries serving the parishes of Pärnu and Sindi. The Revd Esa Luukkala, director of the Mission Centre of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, assisted at the festive Mass and preached the sermon. The missionaries were commissioned by the Revd Toomas…

The parish pastor, the Revd Toomas Nigola, will be on spring leave from 15 to 18 April. During his absence, the assistant pastor, the Revd Joel Pulk (tel. 5647 6417, email joel.pulk@eelk.ee), can assist with pastoral matters. For other enquiries, please contact the parish office (Monday to Thursday, 10:00–14:00; tel. 5666 4626).

On 11 April, a Bible mini-retreat for young people was held at Pärnu St Elizabeth’s Church. Its central theme was sacrifice and redemption in the Old and New Testaments. In the light of Easter, the retreat offered young people an opportunity to explore what Christian redemption means and what Christ sets humanity free from. About…

The name Jubilate (“rejoice”), taken from the antiphon of today’s psalm (Psalm 66:1), expresses the character of the Easter season. With joy, the Church celebrates the Lord’s Resurrection and his victory over death, and turns its gaze towards the new life in heaven, where Jesus has gone to prepare a dwelling place for his own.…

O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things. (Psalm 98:1) “Sing to the Lord a new song!”—this is the call of today, the Fifth Sunday of Easter, inviting us to join in the joy of the Resurrection. Cantate Sunday reminds us that Christian life is more than the grey…

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Our Sunday-school children made symbolic rabbits to hold Easter eggs. The Easter Bunny is an ancient symbol of fertility and new life, originating in Germanic culture and associated with spring and the awakening of nature. Because rabbits reproduce quickly and abundantly, they symbolise the victory of life over…

For children in Sunday school, the cross is one of the most important and meaningful symbols of Christianity. It can be explained to them in simple and heartfelt language: The cross as a sign of love The cross reminds us of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to show his great love for humanity.…

On the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink!” (John 7:37) On Thursday we celebrated the Ascension of Our Lord. In modern language, one might perhaps say that this day marked Jesus’ move to working from his home…

🔥 PENTECOST—THE FEAST OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH 🔥 Today is Pentecost—the day on which the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the apostles and the Church of Christ was born (Acts 2). In southern Estonia, Pentecost is also known as suvistepüha, the feast of early summer. This beautiful name…