On March 16 and 17, 2024, Velmema Lutheran Church in Saransk, Mordovia, hosted seminars on premarital and family relationships. The presenters were Pastor Valeri and Natalia Antipov, ELCIR family work coordinators. The youth cluster discussed what love and marriage are, the goals and tasks of marriage according to the Bible and men’s and … [Read more...]
ELCIR Uralic Deanery holds missionary retreat
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...]
Saransk youth ministers visit cantor’s family in Penza
Irina Piglitsina, cantor of Velmema Lutheran Church in Saransk, Mordovia, lives in Penza. She travels to the church around 140 km by car. Servants of the Saransk congregation Ivan Potyanov and Yekaterina Wilhelm visited Irina in Penza. The Piglitsins warmly welcomed their guests: they sang hymns together and read a sermon out of Luther’s House … [Read more...]
Young people meet up in Cheboksary, study Bible, discuss Christian life
From September 23-25, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Cheboksary, Chuvashia, hosted an informal meeting of young people from the ELCIR Uralic Deanery. The event gathered participants from the nearest congregations in Cheboksary, Gurez-Pudga, Izhevsk, Kazan, Saransk, Yoshkar-Ola, and guests from St. Petersburg. Pastor Artur Semyonov … [Read more...]
Young Velmema church members reach out with Gospel in song
During the Long Night of Museums on May 21, 2022, Yekaterina Wilhelm and Ivan Potyanov, members of Velmema Lutheran Church in Saransk, Mordovia, held a lecture recital at the Erzia Museum of Visual Arts in Saransk. Before each of the songs they performed, they talked about the Heavenly Jerusalem, the imagery of the evangelists, the apostolic … [Read more...]