Topic: 5.Geneva
LWF Youth Holds LWF Pre-Assembly in Dresden
Over 120 Participants Expected
GENEVA, 28 June 2010 (LWI) – Over 120 young Lutherans from the 140 member churches of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) will gather from 11 to 17 July in Dresden, Germany, to prepare for the LWF Eleventh Assembly convening the following week. The Assembly is the organization’s highest decision-making body, meeting every six years.
The Pre-Assembly Youth Conference (PAYC) will take up the Assembly theme "Give Us Today Our Daily Bread." This concerns not only the question of food security but also broad religious and social issues such as HIV and AIDS, illegitimate debt and climate change.
All PAYC participants will also be in Stuttgart for the Assembly, either as delegates or stewards. They are preparing themselves in … Read more