Visitors from the ELCIR

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Exchange visits have led to strong ties of friendship and have deepened our faiths. Nina Jurttajeva, a deaconess from Moscow visited in June of 2006.
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Nadia and Alex Krongholm visited in April/May, 2008, and were guests at the Synod Assembly and area churches
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In 2011, Dina Korepanova, deaconness in the Ural Deanery, and Anu Valiaho, an Estonian missionary married to the Dean of the Ural Deanery, were welcomed visitors who were an inspiring presence at synod assembly and area churches.
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Aleksandra S Seliverstova, head of Diaconal Ministry in the ELCIR, spent six weeks in our synod in late winter, 2014, to observe social ministries in our country and to improve her English speaking skills (funded by the Suomi Conference). .
Other visits have included the Bishop of the ELCIR, Arri Kuggapi; Tapio and Kaija Karjalainen from the seminary; Pastor Fedor Tulinen and wife Elena, on internship at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Virginia