Rev. Dean Ivan Hutter of the ELCIR St. Petersburg Deanery attended the meeting of the Council for Interethnic Cooperation under the administration of the Vsevolozhsk Municipal District, Leningrad Oblast, on February 20, 2020. The meeting was hosted by the local branch of the Road of Life Museum. Ms. Svetlana Khotko, deputy administration head for … [Read more...]
Youth Meet-Up in Ruskeala
On February 22, 2020, the young people of the Ruskeala Lutheran Congregation in Ruskeala near Sortavala, Karelia, held an evening meet-up which included a Bible study entitled What Is Happiness? Also, the participants reflected on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The meet-up also gathered the church’s friends from Sortavala, Koltushi, and … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev Meets with Working Group in Kem
On February 22, 2020, in Rabocheostrosvk, Kem District, Karelia, Bishop Laptev met with the working group for the construction of a new church building in Kem. They discussed the project and held a prayer service on the future construction site. Cordial thanks to the congregation’s pastor Rev. Vladimir Yakushov for the warm welcome and Fr. Simeon, … [Read more...]
Decisions of Synodal Council
Excerpts from the decisions of the Synodal Council meeting 01/2020 of January 31, 2020: - Bless Aleksandr Malyshev to serve as Catechist in Religious Group "The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Cheboksary." - Enact quotas for the election of synod members for 2020-2023. - Make changes to the Standing Orders of the Church as proposed by Rev. … [Read more...]
Followup on Recent Ordinations
The recent ordination of new deacons in The Church of Ingria has become the focus of a material published at a Finnish website, kotimaa24.fi. Bishop Seppo Häkkinen of Mikkeli believes that the ordination of Finnish citizens as deacons of The Church of Ingria does not constitute any problems for The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland because the … [Read more...]
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