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Image Pastor Oleksandr Gross (left) in discussion with Ralf Meister, leading bishop of the VELKD. Photo: VELKD Odessa pastor speaks about ministry in Ukraine war A crisis and a chance to be the church outside the stereotype of church in society: Pastor Oleksandr Gross of GELCU in Odessa, Ukraine, in a greeting to the VELKD synod spoke about the changes the war had brought to his church.
