On June 25, 2022, there was a prayer service on the site of the former building of the Lutheran Church of Petrozavodsk, Karelia. The prayer service gathered church members, including those of advanced age, who reminisced on the days in the old church, which existed from 1970 to 2011. Their testimonies were gratefully heard by younger … [Read more...]
Bishop Emeritus Kugappi wishes Happy St. John’s Day on Russia 1 TV channel
Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi greets TV viewers on the occasion of the Nativity of John the Baptist celebrated on June 24 in the calendar of the ELCIR. A telecast in Viestit Karjala, a Finnish-language news program on Rossiya 1 Karelia, a regional channel of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster which operates many television and radio channels in 53 of … [Read more...]
Vyacheslav Ostanin ordained as pastor
On June 2, 2022, the ELCIR Synodal Council made a decision to ordain Vyacheslav Ostanin into the Office of Pastor for service in the ELCIR Siberian Deanery. On June 25, 2022, Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, the Right Reverend Bishop Ivan Laptev of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia and the Right Reverend Bishop … [Read more...]
Confirmations at St. Michael
On June 19, 2022, Yelena Lieder and Vladimir Petrovichev were confirmed at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg. Yelena embraced Lutheranism following her children (Viktor and his wife Oksana were confirmed last Easter). Vladimir is now the congregation’s youngest member. Each of them received a gift copy of “Baptism, Faith and Salvation … [Read more...]
Sortavala Lutherans visit sister church in Virrat
From June 17-21, 2022, Senior Pastor Andrei Antonov and members of the Lutheran Church of Sortavala, Karelia, Russia, visited their sister church in Virrat, Finland. A special focus of this trip was our compatriots who live in Virrat. Thanks to the active efforts of Timo Wenell, a friend of the Ingrian congregation, the divine service was … [Read more...]
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