On September 10, 2021, ELCIR Pastor Fyodor Sidorenko performed a short music recital and taught a master class in pizza making for the residents of the temporary housing facility in Essoila, Karelia. During the recital, personnel and residents sang songs to the guitar about peace, love, and God. Also, Pastor Fyodor extemporized a music quiz, … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev updates on ELCIR Uralic Deanery
Post by Bishop Laptev, September 9, 2021: Lately, in spite of the pandemic, the Lord has given me several opportunities to visit the congregations of our Uralic Deanery. It’s a vibrant part of our Church as it has new congregations in Izhevsk and Kirov and is seeing ministry starting in Ufa, Bashkortostan. Soon, if the Lord wills and we live, … [Read more...]
The Ark Exhibition closes at St. Anne’s
From June 22 through September 5, 2021, St. Anne’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg, otherwise known as Annenkirche, held an exhibition entitled “The Ark.” The exhibition had 65,000 visitors and provided 842 excursions where the guides shared about the Old Testament story of the righteous man Noah and his salvation and the Sacrament of Holy … [Read more...]
Thank you, Jaani kirik!
A thank-you post by Assistance for Mothers in Crisis project in St. Petersburg, August 3, 2021: We’d like to thank the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John (Jaani Kirik) in St. Petersburg for holding a charity concert! The donations collected during the concert and the worship service will be used to buy groceries, medicines and to … [Read more...]
Vyborg’s Lutheran Church Choir in Focus
On July 29, 2021, Mikael Agricola Choir of Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, was in the spotlight as journalists were shooting documentaries about Vyborg for a project called “Original Russia: from Staraya Ladoga to the Present Day” and saw the choir as one of the city’s items of interest. For the videos, the choir … [Read more...]
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