ELCA Council Urges Synods to Join in LWF’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations
The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) called on the church’s 65 synods, 10,549 congregations and 4.85 million members to support the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and join in preparations to celebrate the LWF’s 60th anniversary in March 2007.
The Church Council is the ELCA’s board of directors and serves as the legislative authority of the church between churchwide assemblies. The council met Nov. 11–13.
The Council adopted a resolution “that the synods and congregations of this church commit to hold the Lutheran World Federation in prayer.” The resolution encouraged ELCA synods and congregations to use resources—prayers, litanies, devotional readings and stories—that will be available to mark the anniversary and LWF Sunday, usually the first Sunday of each October, “to become better informed and also to understand more deeply the relationship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the global Lutheran family.”
The council also urged ELCA members “to support the work of the LWF with gifts and special offerings for the LWF Endowment Fund” so that the LWF will continue to be “strong and vital” for the next 60 years. (200 words)
(ELCA News Service)
If you want to edit this article yourself and adapt it to a given format, follow our editing information
