On December 11, 2021, Kaukola Lutheran Church in Sevastyanovo, Leningrad Oblast, received guests—a group of high school students from Priozersk with their teacher and parents. The students saw the church and the chapel with the image of the Child Jesus, heard a part of a Lutheran church song, and watched a laser light show on the church vault. … [Read more...]
Dean Panchu represents ELCIR at state gala
Rev. Dean Olav Panchu represented the ELCIR Volga Deanery and St. John’s Lutheran Church of Saratov at the gala celebration of the 85th anniversary of Saratov Oblast. In his speech, Oblast Governor Valeri Radayev noted the great achievements of the oblast's residents in the past years and conferred awards. Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State … [Read more...]
5th-graders immerse in all things music at Church of Rzhev
On December 2, 2021, 5th-graders from a local school took a musical excursion to the Lutheran Church of Rzhev, Tver Oblast. They got an understanding of the voices and history of the organ, listened to various kinds of music ranging from school program to rock and cinematic music, philosophized and used their imagination, participated in an … [Read more...]
Mercy ministry continues at halfway house in Novosibirsk
Prison ministry is one of the areas of diaconia, the mercy ministry Jesus commanded His Church to do. The Halfway House in Novosibirsk is a center that gives aid to current and former prisoners and their families. Ex-convicts receive assistance in their re-integration in society such as doing legal paperwork, finding a job, restoring their … [Read more...]
State TV channel interviews congregants as they decorate church for Christmas
Members of Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Petrozavodsk, Karelia, decorate their church for Christmas. Pastor Aleksei Kronholm and church members give interviews in a news report that aired on Rossiya 1 Karelia, a regional channel of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster which operates many television and radio channels in 53 of Russia’s … [Read more...]
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