From May 2-5, 2023, the ELCIR Theological Institute held a training in the spiritual and practical fundamentals of church leadership, in collaboration with Pastoral Leadership Institute International (PLII). Course teachers: Bishop Ivan Laptev, Pastor Yevgeni Raskatov, Pastor Valeri Antipov and ELCIR family ministry coordinator Natalia … [Read more...]
Theological Institute, St. Mary’s Church host church cantor course
The ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi and St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg hosted the 3rd class period of the Church Cantor Course from March 27 through April 2, 2023. The course gathered musicians from four of the nine ELCIR deaneries—Karelian, St. Petersburg, Uralic, and Siberian. In Koltushi, Mikhail Levin, … [Read more...]
More students complete Children & Youth Worker Course
From March 24-25, 2023, the ELCIR Theological Institute hosted the 5th module of the Children & Youth Worker Course. This time the instructors and students talked about confession of sins, counseling, the Red Thread of the Bible, and the theatricalization methodology. They tried to enact a story and did a psychology test. The module … [Read more...]
More students complete ITC modules
From March 13-24, 2023, the ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, hosted several classes (modules) of the Initial Theological Course: dogmatics, liturgics, church history, and missiology. Completion certificates were awarded to students coming from regions in Northwest, Central and South European Russia and Siberia. We … [Read more...]
Students of Christian faith visit Orthodox church in St. Petersburg
On Saturday March 18, 2023, students from the School of Christian faith at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg took an excursion to Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church at Herzen University. Many thanks to Fr. Dmitri for his engaging talk about the design and furnishings of the Orthodox church building! We wish God’s richest … [Read more...]
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