March 12-14 – Children & youth servant course. March 13 – Zoom meeting for children & youth servants to discuss ideas for celebrating Easter. Start at 1 p.m. (MSK) March 15-26 – The Initial Theological Course (dogmatics, liturgics, church history, missiology) at the Theological Institute. Live streams planned. March 18 – Bishop’s … [Read more...]
Photo Galleries of ELCIR Congregations Celebrating Christmas (cont’d)
Christmas Eve and the Feast of the Nativity at the Lutheran Church of Murmansk Christmas Eve at St. John the Baptist Lutheran Congregation of St. Petersburg The Feast of the Nativity at St. Mary Magdalene Lutheran Church of Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast Christmas Eve at the Lutheran Church of Pushkin, St. Petersburg Photos … [Read more...]
Photo Galleries of ELCIR Congregations Celebrating Christmas
St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg St. Anne's Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg St. John's Lutheran Church of Saratov Christ the Savior Lutheran Church of Novosibirsk Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Chalna, Karelia Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Moscow Lutheran Church of Sortavala, Karelia Resurrection of Christ Lutheran Church of the … [Read more...]
ELCIR Events Calendar for October 2020
October 6 – 25th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nizhny Novgorod. October 9 – 32nd Synod of The Church of Ingria. October 11 – Celebrating 14 years since the completion of repairs on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Skvoritsy. October 19-31 – Study session of extramural students. October 20 – Start of the distance-education … [Read more...]
Easter 2020 Address of Bishop Ivan Laptev
https://youtu.be/7LLAimoVvUU Christ is risen! The sorrow and fear of the Myrrhbearers who came to the tomb changed into awe and joy when they saw the stone rolled back from the tomb and the angel sitting on it. Matthew the Evangelist testifies for us, “The angel of the Lord said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who … [Read more...]