On April 21, 2024, young people from traditional religious confessions, including young activists from the ELCIR, came together for a servant event to clean and touch up historical monuments in St. Petersburg. It is the second time the Serving Our City interfaith volunteer drive has taken place to preserve the memory of Leningraders’ heroism during … [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...]
Volunteers winterize Vuoksenranta Church
On November 14-15, 2023, ELCIR volunteers with the priceless help of local residents from Ozyorskoye, Leningrad Oblast, sealed the doorways and window openings in the sanctuary area of the historical Vuoksenranta Lutheran Church recently turned over to the ELCIR. Information courtesy of Rev. Aleksandr Kudryavtsev Original post in Russian … [Read more...]
Preserving history in Vsevolozhsk
On May 13 and June 3, 2023, ELCIR volunteers traveled to Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Oblast, to do a cleanup in an old Lutheran cemetery which turned 245 this year! Sometimes called St. Regina Cemetery, this cemetery is 185 years older than the town of Vsevolozhsk and reflects an important part of the region’s history. The second … [Read more...]
People of different faiths commemorate war victims in St. Petersburg
On May 7, 2023, clerics and young laypeople from The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria, The Russian Orthodox Church, The Armenian Apostolic Church, other Christian confessions and other religions participated in a commemoration and servant event entitled “There is No Faith without Memory, There is No Faith without Works.” Its goal was to keep … [Read more...]