Greetings came from Archbishop Tapio Luoma of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland; Bishop Tiit Salumäe of The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church; Archbishop Vladimir Provorov of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia; Bishop Jaroslav Javorník of The Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia; Daniel Nummela and Teijo Peltola, Folk Mission Evangelical Lutheran Association (Kansanlähetys), Finland; Jukka Kääriäinen and Tapio Pokka, Kylväjä Mission Society, Finland; Ville Auvinen, Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland (SLEY), Finland; Antero Rasilainen, Evangelical Mission Society (ELY), Finland; Vladimir Ivanov, Dept. for Relations with Religious Associations, Administration of St. Petersburg; Auxiliary Bishop Nikolai Dubinin of the Mother of God Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Moscow; Pavel Khramov, consistory secretary, The Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church.

 

Photo credit: Liliann Keskinen

 

Original posts in Russian: Link 1, Link 2