Ministry in Siberia

We continue to work with Vyacheslav Ostankin – a deacon of an Evangelical Lutheran church in Novosibirsk. He writes, “During the last month we visited lots of places, especially children’s institutions for those who are ill with tuberculosis, we also went to prison camps and sat at a committee session discussing release on parole. Another [...]

Christmas in Kitezgrad Children’s Public Center

The staff of Concordia Foundation visited Kitezgrad Children’s Public Center on December 24. The purpose of this visit is presentation of Christmas Book to the Children of this Center. There was a lot of fan during this evening in Kitezgrad that was organized by the teachers of this Center under leadership of Mr Karen Avakjan. [...]

Christmas Project – final stage

Now it is reached final stage of the Christmas Project. The author of the text is Dmitry Jakubov originally from Russia and now he lives in U.S. He gave copy rights to St. Mikhail Church for publication of this book. This small book will contains only 96 pages but saturated with nice Christian and Christmas [...]

“Colors of Faith” in St. Petersburg

Some time ago Concordia Foundation received with great pleasure bracelets from The Eastern District of the Lutheran Layman’s League. These bracelets “Colors of Faith” made from small balls of various colors. Mrs. Ruth Muck, Outreach Chairman Eastern District LLL explained, that each bead symbolize most important categories of our Life: Gold is a Heaven, black [...]

Lessons about Creation in School of St. Petersburg

Russian people show rising interest in Creation and its connection with the Bible. In spite of the Evolution theory still being constantly advertised by secular media, people feel that Creation point of view offers more truth to explain the origin of life and man. That is why Igor Savich was invited to give several lessons [...]

Christmas season provides new opportunities for ministry activity

In accordance with Evangelical “Christmas Project” Georgi Panajotov, young painter visited LHMoffice in St. Petersburg. He brought with him several paintings and talked about his activity. His painting is very close to traditional icon painting but he worked long time in Bulgaria and his pictures have strong hint of Greek tradition (see picture). Georgi has [...]

Ministry Roundup: July 2009

In July I visited two Lutheran churches. One of them is in Gatchina, small town not far from St. Petersburg and another is Zelenogorsk. It is suburb of St. Petersburg. In Gatchina I met with Rev. Andrey Tuchkanen. He was very interested about possibilty of organizing language summer camps. They were just wrapping up a [...]