Advent Calendar

2025 | Messages of Faith

During Advent, the LWF will share messages of faith. They come from LWF member churches and country programs and share short messages, stories, or ideas that help us understand and reflect on what faith is today.

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Sunday	30 Nov	Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Monday	1 Dec	Rev. Luciller Tsao, Taiwan Lutheran Church
Tuesday	2 Dec	Luhekelo Sanga, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Wednesday	3 Dec	Prof. Dr Peter Lodberg, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Thursday	4 Dec	Ms Agnieszka Tarnogorska, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
Friday	5 Dec	Mr Borry Jatta, LWF Country Representative in Haiti
Saturday	6 Dec	Ms Margo Jonker, Protestant Church in the Netherlands

Sunday	7 Dec	Bishop Steven Lawrence, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia
Monday	8 Dec	Mr Sylvain Youta Nchoutnsou, LWF Country Program in Cameroon
Tuesday	9 Dec	Penelope Guntermann and Michael Clifford, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Wednesday	10 Dec	Rev. Rinki Rachel Soren, Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church
Thursday	11 Dec	Bishop Izani Bruch, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile
Friday	12 Dec	Ms Toromare Mananato, Malagasy Lutheran Church
Saturday	13 Dec	Rev. Boston Laferté, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Sunday	14 Dec	Rev. Isabelle Gerber, President, Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine
Monday	15 Dec
Tuesday	16 Dec
Wednesday	17 Dec
Thursday	18 Dec
Friday	19 Dec
Saturday	20 Dec

Sunday	21 Dec
Monday	22 Dec
Tuesday	23 Dec
Wednesday	24 Dec

2024 | A Message of Joy

During Advent, the LWF will share messages of joy. They come from LWF member churches and country programs and share short messages, stories, or ideas that help us understand and reflect on what joy is today.

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1 to 7 December ¶
8 to 14 December ¶
15 to 21 December ¶
22 to 24 December ¶

Sunday	1 Dec	Joseph Dimas, The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria
Monday	2 Dec	Jodie Hoff, Lutheran Church of Australia
Tuesday	3 Dec	Central America World Service program team
Wednesday	4 Dec	Rev. Pavel Pokorný, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
Thursday	5 Dec	Tatianah Andrianasaina, Malagasy Lutheran Church
Friday	6 Dec	Michael Ram, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
Saturday	7 Dec	Rev. Anne Birgitte Reiter, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark

Sunday	8 Dec	Bishop Thomas Low, Lutheran Church in Malaysia
Monday	9 Dec	Sophia Gebreyes, World Service country program in Ethiopia
Tuesday	10 Dec	Rachel Wardenaar, Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Wednesday	11 Dec	Rev. Paul Gehrs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Thursday	12 Dec	Church President Rev. Ofelia Dávila Llimpe, Lutheran Church of Peru
Friday	13 Dec	Bupe Kibiki, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Saturday	14 Dec	Bishop Christian Samraj Arputharaj, The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, India

Sunday	15 Dec	Rev. Elfriede Dörr, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania
Monday	16 Dec	Blessing Diloubenzi, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Congo
Tuesday	17 Dec	Anna Shepel, LWF Foundation in Poland
Wednesday	18 Dec	Lidiya Tefera, The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus
Thursday	19 Dec	Rev. Meelis Süld, General Secretary of the Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain
Friday	20 Dec	Zuzanna Świderska, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
Saturday	21 Dec	Bishop Jack Urame, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea

Sunday	22 Dec	Bishop Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
Monday	23 Dec	Rev. Louis Marcelo Illenseer, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
Tuesday	24 Dec	Rev. Veronika Pålsson, Church of Sweden

2023 | A Message of Hope

During Advent, the LWF will share messages of hope. They come from LWF member churches and country programs and share short messages, stories, or ideas that help us understand and reflect on what hope is today.

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1 to 6 December ¶
7 to 12 December ¶
13 to 18 December ¶
19 to 24 December ¶

1 Dec	Rev. Lilana Kasper, Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa
2 Dec	Celly Manirakoze , Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
3 Dec	Prof. Dr Jerzy Sojka, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
4 Dec	Rev. Dr. Arnfriđur Guðmundsdóttir, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland
5 Dec	Rev. Selma (Shu-Chen) Chen, The Lutheran Church of Taiwan, Republic of China
6 Dec	Bishop Atahualpa Hernandez, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia

7 Dec	Rev. Jussi Luoma, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
8 Dec	Rev. Dr Jeanette Ada Epse Maina, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon
9 Dec	Geetanjali Suna, Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church, India
10 Dec	Bishop Dr Tamás Fabiny, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary
11 Dec	Rev. Emily Norris, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
12 Dec	Camila Weiss Bohl, Evangelical Church of the River Plate, Paraguay

13 Dec	Ole Andreas Grøtte Børnes, Church of Norway
14 Dec	Helena Funk, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, Germany
15 Dec	Imran Siddiqui, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
16 Dec	Larry Kochendorfer, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
17 Dec	Vicar Charlotte Horn, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Germany
18 Dec	Haposan Cornelius Sinaga, Protestant Christian Batak Church (HKBP), Indonesia

19 Dec	Eva Chalupková, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic
20 Dec	Bishop Evalister Mugabo, Lutheran Church of Rwanda
21 Dec	Carmen Garcia, World Service Colombia
22 Dec	Anania Ndondole, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
23 Dec	Natan Schumann, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
24 Dec	Dr Anna Krauss, The Lutheran Church in Great Britain