Worship

Opening worship service of the LWF Council meeting in Bogotá

Council Sunday worship focuses on Pentecost experience

Lutheran communion committed to continued dialogue between churches.

Download LWF Sunday 2010 liturgical materials and adapt as needed for your context.

Strengthening Unity, Celebrating Diversity The close connection between faith and worship is central for Lutherans. Joint prayer, giving thanks and praise act as unifying forces for the global communion’s churches and their members. LWF Sunday, held on or around Reformation Sunday, serves to celebrate the rich diversity of LWF’s membership in 79 countries and its [...]

LWF Eleventh Assembly concludes in joyful worship.

What, from an “African” perspective, is worship? What does it mean to be a worshipping community in the midst of crisis? How does worship relate to the immediacy of crisis and still maintain its timeless confession? More specifically, how do such elements of worship as shape, substance, practice and space reflect the often tragic realities [...]

One of the church’s greatest gifts is its musical heritage. From the earliest days of the church, poets and musicians have expressed their faith through music. Agape: Songs of Hope and Reconciliation is a collection of 111 worship songs from all over the world, compiled as a resource for the 2003 LWF Assembly, which met [...]

This worship resource is intended to strengthen the common identity and prayer life of the worldwide Lutheran communion, as well as for use in ecumenical gatherings. A number of the liturgies and prayers in this book were written for the LWF Tenth Assembly. As the editors write in the preface, “the Greek word koinonia (literally [...]

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A historic move towards reconciliation after Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists took place at the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Stuttgart, Germany.

Our pluralistic, multi-faith, conflicted world calls for ongoing critical theological reflection on what it means to believe and live out the Christian faith as Lutheran churches in diverse settings across the globe.

The theological basis, meaning and implications of what it means to be a communion of churches is what makes the LWF far more than another non-governmental organization (NGO).

During Sunday morning worship on 25 October, LWF President Bishop Mark S. Hanson challenged Lutheran church representatives from around the world to tell the story of “the truth that sets free”…

A colorful worship service this morning marked the opening of the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Lutheran World Federation at Chavannes-de-Bogis, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Festive Worship Opens European Church Leadership Consultation GREIFSWALD, Germany/GENEVA, 13 September 2008 (LWI) – “We are not great because of what we have achieved but because God achieves extraordinary things through us ordinary people,” was the message from Rev. Dr. Ishmael Noko, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), at the opening worship of [...]

Common Forms of Expression Strengthen Christian Unity BOSSEY, Switzerland/GENEVA, 20 August 2008 (LWI) – “Church is first and foremost worship,” and every understanding of the Church has worship as its point of departure. This emphasis on the central role of worship for the Church was made at a recent international ecumenical conference of the Lutheran [...]

Visit to Local Lutheran Congregations ARUSHA, Tanzania/GENEVA, 1 July 2008 (LWI) – Congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) invited participants of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council meeting in Arusha to their Sunday worships on 29 June 2008. This included the congregation in Mtowamu, northern Tanzania, near the Ngorongoro Crater, a two-hour [...]

LWF Vice President Kameeta Preaches at Thanksgiving Service ARUSHA, Tanzania/GENEVA, 29 June 2008 (LWI) – “The Word of God is taking you and me into the kindness of God,” declared Bishop Dr Zephania Kameeta, Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia (ELCRN) at a colorful, music-filled thanksgiving service on 29 June in the northern [...]

Tanzanian Bishop Laiser: “We must be the light and salt of the earth” ARUSHA, Tanzania/GENEVA, 27 June 2008 (LWI) – A festive worship service marked the opening of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council meeting on 25 June in Arusha, Tanzania. In his sermon, Tanzanian Bishop Thomas O. Laiser called upon the Lutheran communion to [...]

Ahead of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity centennial next year, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has called on young adults in its member churches and various networks to join Christian youth in praying for “the much-needed Christian unity in every global region.

The General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko has reiterated a recent LWF Council call upon the member churches to pray on Maundy Thursday for Christians in the Middle East.