On March 31, 2024, Vasili Anikitiy was installed into the ministry of catechist at the Lutheran Church of Murmansk. Vasili has been a member of the Murmansk congregation and its church council for many years. In the recent years, he has also been an altar server. We wish the new catechist God's guidance as he serves to glorify God's name among the … [Read more...]
Praise the Lord for the Easter Sunday baptisms and confirmations!
Below is a photo gallery of some of the baptisms and confirmations that took place in ELCIR congregations on Easter Sunday March 31, 2024. … [Read more...]
ELCIR and community volunteers clean up future exhibition site
On March 30, 2024, teams from St. Anne’s Lutheran Church (Annenkirche) and Zerno Art Group together with volunteers from The Keepers of the Ruins movement did a cleanup in one of the deserted buildings of the former Ponarth Brewery in Kaliningrad. 125 volunteers joined efforts to help kick off the conversion of the building into exhibition space … [Read more...]
Easter message of ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev
Christ is risen! “O death, where is your sting? O hell, where is your victory?The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” 1 Cor. 15:55-56 Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Victory! We all seek to win, to achieve goals we have set for ourselves, and to overcome difficulties. However, there … [Read more...]
ELCIR and Orthodox ecclesiastics & educators meet in Koltushi
On March 13, 2024, in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, ELCIR ecclesiastics met with Bishop Silvanus of Peterhof, rector of St. Petersburg Theological Academy of The Russian Orthodox Church. The other guests were two faculty members of Moscow Theological Academy of The Russian Orthodox Church—Aleksei Svetozarski, head of the church history … [Read more...]
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