The program started at St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral of St. Petersburg in the evening of August 25. The participants and the church’s band established themselves on the front steps of the church and filled Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street in downtown St. Petersburg with music and song! Passersby stopped to listen to the Lutherans singing … [Read more...]
ELCIR servants bring Word and Sacrament to nursing home residents
As The Church of Ingria continues to give spiritual care to its nursing homes called mercy houses, on August 23, 2022, Rev. Arvo Survo and the band Elo-Sooni visited the mercy house in Kikerino, Leningrad Oblast, and performed the Taiga Mass (or “Korpimessu” in Finnish), composed by Pastor Survo and based on songs in the style of the Kalevala, the … [Read more...]