“It’s a God-given opportunity and at the same time a challenge, because in our context not many women are in leadership positions,” says Dr Ebisse Gudeta, the first female academic dean of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane…
In this Voices from the Communion, LWF Council member Jussi Luoma speaks about his work as mission coordinator and youth leader in a large Tampere parish, alongside his role as a member of a leading Finnish folk choir
From her Korean Buddhist origins, Anglican college life, to becoming a Lutheran church Vice-President, it’s been 20 years since Rev. Heeme Yang “knocked on the seminary door.”
In this Voices from the Communion interview, the Pastor President of the Lutheran Church of Peru, Rev. Ofelia Dávila Llimpe, speaks about her ongoing engagement for social and gender justice, the inspiration she drew from Liberation Theology, and…
A pianist since the age of 12, who went on to become the first woman president of a French Protestant church, Rev. Emmanuelle Seyboldt reflects on leadership and “the Bible at the center of my life.”
In this Voices from the Communion, the Central African Republic Lutheran church leader highlights the church’s responsibility in building trust in the community, providing health care and education
In this Voices from the Communion, youth delegate Nora Antonsen shares her passion for climate justice, entrepreneurship and youth empowerment - values shaped by her experience with LWF’s delegation at COP in Glasgow…
Having been in the ordained ministry for the past 25 years, Rev. Lidia Consuelo Preciado speaks about her vocation to become a pastor and the role of women in her church and Colombia’s peace process.
In this Voices from the Communion interview, Pröpstin Astrid Kleist speaks about her leadership at the local and international levels and the characteristics of the Central Western European region. She looks back at her term of office with the…
Malaysian Bishop Steven Lawrence shares his experience of church leadership in a multifaith, multicultural and global context, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the church.
