On September 11, 2022, members of a religious group from Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, were confirmed at the Lutheran Church of Novorossiysk. Cordial congratulations to Aleksandr, Yelena, Nikolai, Nikola, and Olga! “And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you. . . “ (Deut. 8:2, ESV) Information courtesy … [Read more...]
St. Michael’s Church joins in with other St. Petersburg residents commemorating Siege victims
On September 8, 2022, the city of St. Petersburg, named Leningrad in the Soviet era, commemorated the Siege of Leningrad by the Nazi German army, which began on this day in 1941 and continued into 1944 during WW2. Standing in different parts of the city on this day, people read out loud in public the lists of city residents who died from starvation … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev reports on attending ILC conference in Kisumu, Kenya
September 15, 2022 Message from Bishop Ivan Laptev: African mission complete! 1. Reinstatement of the ELCIR as a voting member of the International Lutheran Council. 2. Presentation of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Israel. (There, too, I was installed in the ministry of bishop.) 3. Election of a new ILC chairman. … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev, Pastor Ivanov, Pastor Ostanin attend the 27th World Conference of The International Lutheran Council
Rt. Rev. Ivan Laptev, ELCIR Bishop; Rev. Mikhail Ivanov, ELCIR chief secretary; and Rev. Vyacheslav Ostanin, senior pastor of the Lutheran Church in Novosibirsk attended the 27th World Conference of The International Lutheran Council, which was held in Kisumu, Kenya from September 13-16, 2022. The topic of the conference was “Liturgy & Culture. … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev attends retreat at the World Council of Churches center in Geneva, Switzerland, and in Wittenberg, Germany
In early September 2022, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev attended the Retreat of Newly-Elected Leaders (RoNEL) at the Ecumenical Center of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. Sixteen bishops and presidents of Evangelical Lutheran churches from around the world met each other, shared about their ministry experience, discussed theological … [Read more...]
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