Young Reformers at the World Reformation Exhibition
16 Jul - 31 Jul 2017
Young Reformer delegates met in August 2015 at the
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Youth from LWF member churches will mutually learn and share experiences. They will gain leadership skills, ecumenical and theological knowledge.
This is a follow-up to the August 2015 international workshop of the Global Young Reformers Network, also held in Wittenberg. During the first week at the “youngPointreformation,” the participants from 14 churches representing all the seven LWF regions will share about youth work in their respective churches, facilitate workshops on their Living Reformation projects and offer prayers, songs and games to visiting youth and confirmation candidates.
During the second week at the LWF Heaven’s Tent, the 18 young people will offer daily workshops about their ideas of ongoing reformation in the Lutheran churches, movie screening, and cultural presentations from around the world.
In four years, the Global Young Reformers Network program has equipped Lutheran youth for leadership and trained them on project management.
Those taking part in Wittenberg come from the following churches:
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Lutheran Church of Australia
- Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
- Lutheran Church in Chile
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia
- Evangelical Church in Central Germany
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
- Simalungun Protestant Christian Church (Indonesia)
- Lutheran Church in Liberia
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
- Lutheran Church in the Philippines
- German Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Ukraine
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zambia
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe
The program is supported by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in Germany.
LWF Youth Desk and the Youth department of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany are organizing the event.
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