On March 1, 2024, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev installed Rev. Aleksandr Dyshenov as the new senior pastor of Grace of Christ Lutheran Church in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia. Bishop Laptev said a homily based on 1 Tim. 6:10-12. During the blessing ceremony, he was assisted by the church’s former senior pastor Rev. Nikiforov and Deacon Urmayev. Church … [Read more...]
Rev. Volchok speaks to university students
On February 26, 2024, Murmansk Arctic University hosted the first meeting of ministers from The Russian Orthodox Church and The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia with the university’s students. The meeting is part of the ongoing collaboration of traditional religions in Russia. The ELCIR was represented by Pastor Aleksandr … [Read more...]
Child baptized in Voronezh
On February 25, 2024, Pastor Aleksei Schastlivy from Borisoglebsk administered the Sacrament of Holy Baptism to the child Emilian at the Lutheran Church of Voronezh. The family of the child’s father, Pierre Sanguero, belonged to a Protestant church in the Central African Republic. Pierre would like his children to follow Christ in a Protestant … [Read more...]
Researchers from ELCIR seminary speak about traditional values
On February 22, 2024, St. Petersburg State University hosted “Traditional Values and Images of the Future,” a conference of researchers and educators as part of the Int'l Interreligious Youth Forum. The following presentations came from the ELCIR Theological Institute: “Traditional Family Affections in Early Christian Hagiography … [Read more...]
Christian art park to be built at Vuoksa Hutor holiday camp
Students from the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg, proposed house designs and land improvement plans for the camp. As they are not final, their plans will be changed and touched up. Originally, 2nd-year students of environmental design presented 13 design plans for selection. Five design sketches made it to the … [Read more...]
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