Evgenij Lukinov

Evgenij Viktorovich Lukinov was born on July 22, 1977, in the city of Tokmak in the Kyrgyz Republic.
In 1994, having finished school in Tokmak, he entered the Bishkek Civil Aviation College. He lived and studied there from September 1994 to January 1997, and finished a course on the helicopter MI-8.
In October of 1996 he became acquainted with the President of the Theological Seminary, Stefan Reder. This relationship in a special way influenced his future. In March of 1997, he entered the  ELCROS Seminary in Novosaratovka. From April 1997 to June of 2000 he lived and studied in Novosaratovka. Three years of life at the Seminary “gave me real friends, both among my fellow classmates and among the faculty and staff, and I also learned a lot,” he says. “Maybe that’s why I still consider the Seminary my home,” he continues.

From August 2000 to August 2001, the Seminary sent him on an internship in Krasnoyarsk, where he served under Pastor Rudolf Bluemcke.  On the 31st of August 2001, he finished his full course of education of the ELCROS Theological Seminary and received a diploma.

Since September of 2001, he has worked in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East (ELCUSFE) and continued his service in Krasnoyarsk. “The time of my internship in Krasnoyarsk was full of blessing. This was the beginning of my independence. Here I for the first time led a service with Holy Communion and Baptism, and learned how, at the same time, our congregations are all the same and yet, quite different,” he says. From May of 2002, he has been serving in Omsk as pastor of the congregation and chair of the church council at the invitation of the Bishop of the ELCUSFE.