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...]
TICI students share about church’s social ministry at interuniversity conference
On April 21, 2023, Nikita Lahtinen, Inna Lahtinen, and Filipp Rodionov, 1st-year students from the ELCIR Theological Institute (TICI), participated in an interuniversity researchers’ conference entitled “Herzen Lectures 2023” organized by Herzen Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg. They presented a study on the topic “Social Ministry in ELCIR … [Read more...]
New catechist installed in Koltushi
On January 29, 2023, the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus, Nikita Lahtinen, 1st-year bachelor’s student at the ELCIR Theological Institute, was installed as a catechist at the Lutheran Church of Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast. The blessing ceremony was officiated by Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi. Photo credits: Inna Lahtinen, Vladislav … [Read more...]