General Secretary visit

As LWF's Chief Executive Officer, our General Secretary travels regularly to visit member churches and World Service country programs in different parts of the globe.

Dr. Fadi Atrash (2 from the right), CEO of the Augsta-Victoria-Hospital (AVH) shows the LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr. Anne Burghardt (left, in black) a unit of the Hospital. Photo: LWF/ E. Shaheen
Dr. Fadi Atrash (2 from the right), CEO of the Augsta-Victoria-Hospital (AVH) shows the LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr. Anne Burghardt (left, in black) a unit of the Hospital. Photo: LWF/ E. Shaheen
Dr. Fadi Atrash (2 from the right), CEO of the Augsta-Victoria-Hospital (AVH) shows the LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr. Anne Burghardt (left, in black) a unit of the Hospital. Photo: LWF/ E. Shaheen
LWF General Secretary visits Holy Land
news
30 Jan 2023
  • Humanitarian
  • Communion
Panel on the situation of minority churches in the Central and Western Europe region. (From left) Michael Martin (moderator), Andreas Wöhle (Protestant Church in the Netherlands), Anna Krauss (Lutheran Council of Great Britain), Renate Dienst (Federation of Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein), Michael Chalupka (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria), and Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant Church of France). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller
Panel on the situation of minority churches in the Central and Western Europe region. (From left) Michael Martin (moderator), Andreas Wöhle (Protestant Church in the Netherlands), Anna Krauss (Lutheran Council of Great Britain), Renate Dienst (Federation of Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein), Michael Chalupka (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria), and Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant Church of France). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller
Panel on the situation of minority churches in the Central and Western Europe region. (From left) Michael Martin (moderator), Andreas Wöhle (Protestant Church in the Netherlands), Anna Krauss (Lutheran Council of Great Britain), Renate Dienst (Federation of Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein), Michael Chalupka (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria), and Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant Church of France). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller
European Churches called to be messengers of hope and reconciliation
news
12 Oct 2022
  • Communion
  • Churches
Participants in the women’s self-help group Tesfa (‘hope’) gather for the day. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Participants in the women’s self-help group Tesfa (‘hope’) gather for the day. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Participants in the women’s self-help group Tesfa (‘hope’) gather for the day. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ethiopian church empowers communities to thrive on their own
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22 Feb 2019
  • Humanitarian
  • Communion
A group of Oromo IDPs walk on the dry riverbed near Burka Dare IDP site in Ethiopia. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. 27 January 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
A group of Oromo IDPs walk on the dry riverbed near Burka Dare IDP site in Ethiopia. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. 27 January 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
A group of Oromo IDPs walk on the dry riverbed near Burka Dare IDP site in Ethiopia. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. 27 January 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ethiopia: Creativity in the face of hardship
news
12 Feb 2019
  • Governance
  • Humanitarian
Rev. Tseganesh Ayele of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus welcomes participants to the CMCR. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Rev. Tseganesh Ayele of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus welcomes participants to the CMCR. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Rev. Tseganesh Ayele of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus welcomes participants to the CMCR. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
“As churches in mission, we belong to each other”
news
6 Feb 2019
  • Governance
  • Churches
A choir of the Addis Ababa Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Ethiopia. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
A choir of the Addis Ababa Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Ethiopia. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
A choir of the Addis Ababa Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Ethiopia. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ethiopia: A vibrant Lutheran church with 9.3 million faithful
news
4 Feb 2019
  • Churches
  • Governance
Visiting LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge and his team join EECMY church leaders in a meeting with members of the Hundedo self-help group in Hadiya, on 31 January. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Visiting LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge and his team join EECMY church leaders in a meeting with members of the Hundedo self-help group in Hadiya, on 31 January. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Visiting LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge and his team join EECMY church leaders in a meeting with members of the Hundedo self-help group in Hadiya, on 31 January. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ethiopia: Symbols of Hope help rebuild lives of young people
news
1 Feb 2019
  • Humanitarian
  • Communion