On October 31, 2020, Deacon Sergei Anikin from St. John’s Church in Saratov participated in a Reformation Day conference at the Lutheran Center of The Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Novosibirsk. Deacon Sergei presented a report on the topic of “Liberal Theology and Its Role in the Rise of 19th-Century Confessional Lutheranism.” The conference was attended by SELC clerics, laypeople, and seminarians, and ELCIR Deacon Vyacheslav Shadrin. On the following day, Deacon Sergei participated in the celebration of the All Saints’ Day worship service.