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...]
Children’s program in Murmansk
On August 23, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Murmansk started a children's program called “I, You, He, She.” The children met each other, played a ball game, and began to read The Wordless Book, a series of evangelism lessons for children. A tour of the city reminded everybody what a wonderful city they live in. Murmansk is only 105 years … [Read more...]
Family retreat in Yoshkar-Ola
From August 19-21, 2022, Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El, held a family retreat of the ELCIR Uralic Deanery. The hospitable Holy Cross congregation gathered participants from Birsk, Cheboksary, Gurez-Pudga, Izhevsk, Kazan, Penza, and Saransk. Pastor Valeri and Natalia Antipov from the Lutheran church in Rzhev held … [Read more...]
God bless new confirmands!
More Lutherans in Russia! On August 7, 2022, the annual youth confirmation camp in Koltushi ended in a celebration of confirmations! We wish the new church members from Cheboksary, Essoila, Petrozavodsk, Segezha, St. Petersburg, and Vologda to remain faithful to Christ and follow the words of St. Paul: “For when you were slaves of … [Read more...]
Annual family retreat in Rzhev
From July 29-31, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Rzhev, Tver Oblast, held its annual family retreat. The topic for the three days was “Discipleship.” Some of the questions that were raised and answered were, Do we understand correctly what we are taught? Do we really convey to others what we’ve been taught? Who are our teachers and who are … [Read more...]
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