Global Young Reformers Network
Global Young Reformers Network: A place to connect with the wider church

New program executive for youth shares vision for network
Bright future for the church in Iceland
2 August 2019
Working with youth, serving the world, from the northernmost corner of the Lutheran communion  (LWI) - At just 29 years old, Thuridur Björg Wiium Arnadottir is one of the youngest Lutheran pastors, serving in one of the most rural and isolated parts of ...
Lutheran youth delegate calls for urgent climate action
17 July 2019
Young German environmental activist joins ecumenical and interfaith participants at Laudato Si’ conference in Kenya (LWI) - Listen to young people and take seriously their concerns about the crisis facing our common home! That was the urgent appeal relayed ...
The youngest ombudsperson in all Bavaria’s congregation councils
9 July 2019
Julian Appl: “My grandma was thrilled” (LWI) - The congregation council in Hohenstadt in the Hersbruck deanery has elected 18-year-old Julian Appl as its ombudsperson – very probably the youngest person in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ...
Young Lutherans raise concerns at Council 2019
21 June 2019
Youth Council members call for action on climate change, gender justice and participation in church leadership (LWI) - Young Lutheran ordained and lay leaders from different parts of the globe gathered in Geneva for a Pre-Council meeting, voicing concerns ...
Ethiopia: Fish farming promotes youth entrepreneurship and food security
2 May 2019
“Through a sharing spirit” EECMY initiatives serve wider community (LWI) - The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) Development and Social Services Commission (DASSC) has opened a training center in Bishoftu town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia, ...
Southern Africa youth resolve to address climate change and gender-based violence
29 April 2019
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Church of Iceland offers equal opportunities for women
28 February 2019
Nordic church implementing LWF commitment to promote women and young people in leadership
Honduran church models inclusion and opportunities for young women
20 February 2019
LWF member church works with partners offering alternatives to migration
Witnessing through dialogue, education and women’s empowerment in the Holy Land
11 January 2019
Voices from the Communion: Palestinian LWF Council member Sally Azar (LWI) - Please tell us something about yourself, and your church?
Youth in Taizé: Be builders of hospitality and hope
28 December 2018
LWF General Secretary sends message to young people at European Encounter in Madrid (LWI) - The  Lutheran World Federation General Secretary has invited young people to be builders of a new world order marked by hospitality and Christian hope.
Climate finance: A moral challenge
21 December 2018
After listening to a plenary discussion at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Katowice, Poland, I realized not only the moral challenge of climate change, but also the moral challenge of our policies in addressing this dire issue.
Are we constructing or destructing the future?
20 December 2018
We, as faith communities, and as the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), are still very much hopeful of a better future, a future that’s safe and secure for all creation. We are currently in the context where, on a daily basis, we ask ourselves if we still ...
The down-to-earth truth: Troubling times on Lake Toba
20 December 2018
The idea of “climate change” rings ‘commonsensically’ familiar to subsistence farmers on Samosir Island of Lake Toba in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. The expression conveying climate change in the local language of Toba Batak—“tingki na ...
Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home
19 December 2018
Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home
A strong basis to implement climate agreement but the poor have been left behind
18 December 2018
LWF Youth Secretary says COP 24 outcome lacks commitment to the most marginalized (LWI) - Negotiations at the United Nations (UN) climate conference in Katowice, Poland, have resulted in guidelines that “provide a strong basis to implement the Paris Agreement, ...
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