From July 7-9, 2023, the Lutheran Church of Birsk, Bashkortostan, hosted a missionary retreat of the ELCIR Uralic Deanery. The gathering brought together lay members and ministers from Velmema Lutheran Church of Saransk, Mordovia; Holy Cross Lutheran Church of Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El; St. Andrew the Apostle Lutheran Church of Kazan, … [Read more...]
Family Retreat in Bashkortostan
From August 11-13, 2020, clergymen Vladislav Abdullin (Birsk, Bashkortostan), Andrei Yurtayev (Moscow), Marat Fazlullin (Gurez-Pudga, Udmurtia), Valeri Antipov (Rzhev) and lay church members met up in Iglino, a village in Bashkortostan, to discuss the importance of family values. Video (only in Russian) … [Read more...]