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Image A little boy watches a football game in a child friendly space, Gendrassa refugee camp, South Sudan. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner "Every single one counts under God's reign” “… 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 2016 New Year…
Image Water poured at the Global Commemoration of the 500 years of Reformation in Windhoek, Namibia. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano Water without cost In New Year Message General Secretary Junge says churches are called to offer a life-giving witness "To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life." Book of Revelation 21:6 What a…
Image New Year Message 2018 In New Year Message General Secretary Junge says churches are called to offer a life-giving witness.
Image New Year Message 2016: "Every single one counts under God's reign” “… 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 t
Image 2015 New Year Message from the LWF General Secretary In his New Year's Message addressed to the LWF Council and Member Churches, LWF General Secretary, Martin Junge, expresses his gratitude for G
Image New Year Message 2014 from the LWF General Secretary “But as for me, it is good to be near God.” (Psalm 73:28) Dear sisters, dear brothers in Christ,
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