Praise the Lord as a new congregation of Lutheran Christians has joined The Church of Ingria! The photo shows the official protocol of the meeting of the ELCIR Synodal Council on January 30, 2020 presided over by Bishop Laptev, which states that the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Novorossiysk has been incorporated into The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia. The pastor of the congregation is Rev. Pavel Tkachenko.