Trilistnik, an ELCIR-run crisis shelter for women with children in St. Petersburg collaborating closely with St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s Lutheran churches and St. Petersburg’s charities, provided assistance to 20 women and 31 children in 2021. Additionally, the shelter plans to focus more closely on assisting children left without parental care. … [Read more...]
ELCIR servants bring Word and Sacrament to nursing home residents
As The Church of Ingria continues to give spiritual care to its nursing homes called mercy houses, on August 23, 2022, Rev. Arvo Survo and the band Elo-Sooni visited the mercy house in Kikerino, Leningrad Oblast, and performed the Taiga Mass (or “Korpimessu” in Finnish), composed by Pastor Survo and based on songs in the style of the Kalevala, the … [Read more...]
Night festival in St. Petersburg
The Church of Ingria held a night prayer, fellowship and Bible study festival in St. Petersburg—Tyomniye Nochi 2022. On August 19, there was an evening praise and prayer meeting at St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral involving the congregation’s music band. This was followed by a Bible study reflecting on ways to be in constant anticipation of the second … [Read more...]
Christians in Petrozavodsk read Scripture out loud together
Members of Christian churches in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, gathered at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church on August 13, 2022, to read Matthew 1-28 out loud together during three hours! The readers alternated their reading with singing Christian songs. Together, the attendees sang the Russian version of Amazing Grace. Many thanks to all the readers, … [Read more...]
LHF and ELCIR join efforts again to provide church libraries with Christian books
The Lutheran Heritage Foundation and the ELCIR Mission Department are restarting their Books for All initiative and will send a set of Christian literature for congregational libraries to any city in Russia. The set contains more than 25 different titles on theology, Bible studies, pastoral ministry, Bible commentaries, philosophy, history, … [Read more...]
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