The attached photos show a Nativity drama presented at Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, on Christmas Eve December 24, 2022. … [Read more...]
Reformation Day confirmation in Vyborg
At the Reformation Day worship service at the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, on October 31, 2022, Yekaterina came into full fellowship with the Lutheran Church through the Rite of Confirmation. Cordial greetings to our sister in Christ! God’s richest blessings to her as she witnesses for this world! Thus says the Lord: “Be … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva explains Lutheran church organ, introduces Ingrian music instruments to university students
On October 23, 2022, students from the Department of Media Technologies of the State University of Film and Television, St. Petersburg, traveled on an ethnographic TV expedition to Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast. As they toured the city, the highlight of their trip was a meeting with Darya Shkurlyatyeva, a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church of … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev visits Vyborg
On October 23, 2022, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev visited the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast. A Vyborg newspaper took his interview (click here to read his full interview in Russian). Quote: “For me, the Church is living people with their joys and problems, it's specific ministers and parishioners who need support and whose lives I want to … [Read more...]
Psalmodicon in use in Vyborg
The Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, continues the tradition of singing to a psalmodicon. In Karelia and Leningrad Oblast, this instrument has also been known as virsikannel and jouhikkokannel. While there is a psalmodicon in a showcase at Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow, the Vyborg congregation lets you hear it … [Read more...]
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