LWF’s finances showed resilience in 2022 during a year of high inflation and a global economic downturn.

LWF’s General Secretary reports on activities of the global communion of churches over the past year, as the Council gathers for its last full business meeting

As Council members move toward the end of their mandate later this year, the LWF governing body holds its last full business meeting.

As another year draws to a close, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt calls on Christians to spend their days loving God and serving one another.

Looking forward to the LWF Assembly in Poland in 2023, General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt urges Christians “not to be indifferent” but to live out the gospel, working for unity and hope in the coming year.

“… If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?” Matthew 18: 12

5 January 2016

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