Arusha, Tanzania, 25-30 June 2008
Day 4 - Saturday 28 June
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Cross in Unfolding Bud Presents Assembly Theme,
“Give Us Today Our Daily Bread”
The logo for the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to be held in 2010 in Germany, was presented to the Council.
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The Assembly host church, Evangelical Church in Württemberg, Germany, together with an agency developed the logo. The Eleventh Assembly will take place 20 - 27 July 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany.
After a first round in which six agencies proposed designs, further proposals were sought. In consultation with the LWF secretariat in Geneva, the decision was made to nominate the design presented by the Leonhardt & Kern Agency in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
On behalf of the 14-person Assembly Planning Committee, youth Council member Abigail Zang Hoffman, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, reported about the logo development, and presented the agency’s interpretation.
The logo has a modest, simple design, which attempts to combine several elements in one graphic image. The cross is surrounded by a stylized bud. Drawn by a simple pen stroke in a vivid green, the bud represents “Give us today our daily bread,” the Eleventh Assembly theme.
Tanzanian Leader Criticizes Carbon Credit Solution to Global Environmental Pollution
 Former Tanzanian Prime Minister Fredrick T. Sumaye. © LWF/D.-M. Grötzsch |
Addressing a “Plenary on Africa” at the Council meeting, former Tanzanian Prime Minister Fredrick T. Sumaye, criticized the buying of carbon credit to balance global environmental pollution as disgraceful, cautioning poverty and environmental degradation could create a vicious circle, which deepened each other’s effects on poor communities.
“While the industrialized countries have their huge share in environmental pollution, they also have their share in environmental degradation. Developed countries are now attempting to correct the problem by buying what is called carbon credit,” said Sumaye.
In the carbon credit approach, he explained, poor countries were being enticed to create huge farms for bio-fuel plants, whose crops would be exported to offset shares of environmental pollution in industrialized nations. It means one rich country can pollute the environment as long as it can finance land clearing and planting of bio-fuel crop in poor countries.
“This is very sad, unfortunate and even shameful,” he told representatives of LWF member churches and partner organizations.
Global Lutheran Communion Now Has 141 Members with New Member Church from the Republic of Congo
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The LWF Council admitted a new member church, bringing the total number of LWF member churches to 141 spread across 79 countries, comprising around 68.3 million persons.
Upon the recommendation of the Standing Committee for Membership, Council members moved to extend full membership to the 3,115-member Evangelical Lutheran Church of Congo (ELCC).
Started by local preachers, the ELCC was established in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazaville) in 1985, and formally registered with the government in 1991. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon (Eglise évangélique luthérienne du Cameroun – EELC) initially accompanied the Congolese church by training its pastors at the EELC seminary in Meiganga, Cameroon. It joined the Lutheran Communion in Central and West Africa (LUCCWA) in 1990 as an associate member and was admitted to full membership in 2002. More...
Ecumenical Greetings to LWF Council Emphasize
Joint Responsibility for Creation
At its meeting in Arusha, northern Tanzania, the LLWF Council received greetings from the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Anglicans, Mennonites, Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and from the government of the Republic of Tanzania.
Deliberations of the meeting, hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), focused on the theme, “Melting Snow on Mount Kilimanjaro – A Witness of a Suffering Creation.” More...
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