From March 8-10, 2024, Christ the Savior Lutheran Church in Novosibirsk hosted a seminar for children’s and young people’s ministers. Organizer: ELCIR Children & Youth Department. Its participants came from the ELCIR, the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church and other church bodies. On the first day, department head Yevgenia Gavrilenko … [Read more...]
ELCIR ministers uphold traditional values at interdenominational forum on family
On November 14, 2023, Nevskaya Ratusha Business Center in St. Petersburg hosted an interdenominational forum entitled “The Traditional Family in the Context of Digital Transformation.” In his greeting speech at the plenary meeting, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev talked about the abilities of religious organizations to help preserve families. At … [Read more...]
St. Mary’s hosts training for Sunday school teachers
ELCIR Sunday school teachers met together for three days at St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg to share best practices and learn the Godly Play® methodology. The 18 teachers came from Karelia, Lomonosov, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Udmurtia, and Yoshkar-Ola. The three wonderful days strengthened St. Mary’s Sunday school and upgraded the … [Read more...]
Yevgenia Gavrilenko to coordinate children & youth work in St. Petersburg Deanery
Yevgenia Gavrilenko was unanimously voted in for the position of ELCIR St. Petersburg Deanery Children & Youth Work Coordinator at the deanery’s meeting on January 18, 2022. Yevgenia has worked in the ELCIR Children & Youth Department. Currently, she is a Sunday school teacher at the Lutheran Congregation of Toksovo. She’s doing her … [Read more...]
Module 6 of Child & Youth Worker Course
From January 24 to 26, 2020, the Theological Institute of The Church of Ingria conducted Module 6 of the course for child & youth workers. Here is what Tatiana Liukonen who attended the class had to say: “As always, we enriched ourselves spiritually, we learned new things, shared ideas, and discussed important things.” During class we discussed … [Read more...]