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...]
Trilistnik workers attend social orphanhood conference
On June 29, 2022, Aleksandr Smirnov and Yelena Sychenkova, specialists of the Trilistnik Shelter, a project of the ELCIR in St. Petersburg assisting struggling mothers with children, attended a conference entitled “Children Should Live in Their Family.” The conference was organized by Roditelskiy Most Charity Foundation. The conference … [Read more...]
Members of Jaani kirik and St. Anne Visit Trilistnik Shelter
A group of ELCIR church members from St. John’s Estonian Lutheran Church and St. Anne’s Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg visited Trilistnik Children’s Shelter in Kronstadt, St. Petersburg metropolitan area, on February 19, 2022. They brought treats, gifts, clothes, and toys. They met Aleksandr Smirnov and Yelena Stoyanova running the aid … [Read more...]
Charities Meet in St. Petersburg
On February 9, 2022, Aleksandr Smirnov, director of the Trilistnik Project of The Church of Ingria, attended a meeting of specialists from St. Petersburg's crisis centers for women with children and from shelters. The meeting took place at Roditelsky Most Charity Foundation, St. Petersburg. Original post in Russian … [Read more...]
Trilistnik Projects Needs Support – You Can Help!
Aleksandr Smirnov, head of the ELCIR Diaconal Department, solicits support for Trilistnik ("Trefoil") Project assisting struggling mothers and children: Take a child under wing! Dear Friends, We need your support! At our assistance center in St. Petersburg for mothers in crisis we have 11 children in residence and 4 in follow-up. … [Read more...]