On March 30, 2024, teams from St. Anne’s Lutheran Church (Annenkirche) and Zerno Art Group together with volunteers from The Keepers of the Ruins movement did a cleanup in one of the deserted buildings of the former Ponarth Brewery in Kaliningrad. 125 volunteers joined efforts to help kick off the conversion of the building into exhibition space … [Read more...]
Easter message of ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev
Christ is risen! “O death, where is your sting? O hell, where is your victory?The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” 1 Cor. 15:55-56 Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Victory! We all seek to win, to achieve goals we have set for ourselves, and to overcome difficulties. However, there … [Read more...]
ELCIR and Orthodox ecclesiastics & educators meet in Koltushi
On March 13, 2024, in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, ELCIR ecclesiastics met with Bishop Silvanus of Peterhof, rector of St. Petersburg Theological Academy of The Russian Orthodox Church. The other guests were two faculty members of Moscow Theological Academy of The Russian Orthodox Church—Aleksei Svetozarski, head of the church history … [Read more...]
Deacon Kargaltsev presents on Christian lore at St. Petersburg conference
On March 20, 2024, Deacon Aleksei Kargaltsev (left in photo), Cand. Sc. (History), MTh, participated in the 52nd Verbitskaya International Philological Conference at St. Petersburg State University. In the Bible and Christian Literary Texts subpanel Deacon Aleksei gave a paper on “The Passion of St. Marciana: a Perspective on the Structure … [Read more...]
Pastor Valeri and Natalia Antipov facilitate seminars on family and marriage
On March 16 and 17, 2024, Velmema Lutheran Church in Saransk, Mordovia, hosted seminars on premarital and family relationships. The presenters were Pastor Valeri and Natalia Antipov, ELCIR family work coordinators. The youth cluster discussed what love and marriage are, the goals and tasks of marriage according to the Bible and men’s and … [Read more...]