About our work

A focus on the most vulnerable

World Service supports refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) who, for a shorter or longer period, are unable to return to their homes.

We work with returnees, helping them to settle back into their original contexts, and also with host communities and local governments who are receiving displaced people or returnees. 

We work with communities at risk, specifically those vulnerable to natural disasters or who lose large numbers of community members due to migration.

We seek to prevent the effects of poverty and injustice by building long-term resilience.

World Service’s work is guided by LWF’s vision of a just, peaceful, and reconciled world, liberated by God’s grace.

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Leadership staff from Lutheran World Federation World Service country programs are meeting with the Communion Office colleagues in Geneva, 10 May 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Staff from LWF World Service country programs. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Vision

People of the world, living in just societies in peace and dignity, united in diversity, are able to meet their basic needs, achieve their full potential, and claim their universal rights in order to improve their quality of life individually and collectively.

Mission

Inspired by God’s love for humanity, World Service is dedicated to challenging and addressing the causes and effects of human suffering and poverty, linking local responses to national and international advocacy. 

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