Praise God for Sergei Bondarenko, head of the ELCIR Pilgrimage Center, a 3rd-year student in the extramural bachelor’s degree program at the ELCIR Theological Institute, who was ordained into the Office of Deacon at the Lutheran Church of Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, on Judgment Sunday November 26, 2023! We pray many will stand at the right hand of … [Read more...]
Koltushi Church hosts tour guide seminar
On April 2, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Koltushi hosted a seminar for church tour guides. Attending the lecture course were more than 50 active church servants from 20 locations in the St. Petersburg, Karelian, Uralic, Moscow, and Siberian regions. Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi blessed the first educational activity of the Pilgrimage Center and … [Read more...]