Ecumenical Consultation on Theological Education

Even as we emerge from restrictions of the pandemic, theological education will not return to the situation as it was before COVID-19.

We realize that we must address new threats to educational equity and theological discourse. At the same time, however, we celebrate the ways that increased connectivity can provide new opportunities for decolonizing learning and transformative pedagogies. 

Join us online as participants explore:

• educational methods related to pandemic traumata
• how networks of theological institutions and ecumenical cooperation can shape the content and methods of theological discourse in digital space
• pedagogical promise in the wake of the pandemic

Schedule: 09:00 (GMT+1) – TO: 19:30 pm (GMT+1) each day 

Online meeting

The LWF Executive Committee meets online from 10 to 15 June. This is an exceptional meeting following the cancellation of the 2020 Council meeting because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Council delegated authority for necessary decisions to the Executive Committee.

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Executive Committee

Note: As of May 2018, the Meeting of Officers is called Executive Committee.

Living a new normal

Over the past months, we have been in an unprecedented journey and our ways of living, working and connecting have changed due to the pandemic.

Young people are disproportionately affected by this current situation and are finding new ways of coping and settling into a new normal.

Young speakers from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church (India), The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria and Church of Sweden, will reflect on how life has changed amid COVID-19 in their countries and communities. They will share how their churches are engaging or preparing for a post-pandemic world.

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Being church in times of transformation

Online Conference

LWF member churches from Central & Eastern Europe, Central & Western Europe and the Nordic Countries meet online to strengthen regular exchange and cooperation, to decide on a follow-up to the resolutions of the Twelfth LWF Assembly and to prepare the next LWF Council meeting.

From the perspectives of their specific regional contexts they will discuss:

• The impact of the Corona crisis on the ministry of the churches
• Ongoing theological processes on Lutheran identity with particular attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the churches
• Being ‘Church in the Public Space’ in times of growing populism
• LWF Assembly in 2023

Due to the current situation of global pandemic, the consultation will take place online.

Nomination deadline: 31 May 2020

Girls for a Future

The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious consequences for children worldwide, but especially for girls. School closures put especially girls at risk to not only lose out on education temporarily, but to drop out entirely, removing the opportunity to determine their own future. At the same time, the protection mechanisms which work in school are no longer in place.  LWF country programs in the past months have noted an increase in sexual and gender-based violence, early marriage and teen pregnancies which will likely become worse.

Online and on social media, LWF will share insights from the field, voices of girls and of LWF education and protection officers. Please share these insights, and support LWF’s work to empower girls.

Please follow, comment and share the #girlsforafuture #LWFforhopeandafuture on social media and join us on our profiles:

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