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10A-Assembly Report-2003-En-Low For the Healing of the World Official Report The Lutheran World Federation Tenth Assembly Winnipeg, Canada, 21–31 July 2003 Parallel edition in German, French and Spanish: Zur Heilung der Welt – Offizieller Bericht Pour guérir le monde – Rapport officiel Para la Sanación del Mundo – Informe Official Published by The Lutheran World Federation Office for Communication Services P.O Box 2100 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Editing, translation, revision, cover design and layout by LWF staff. Other translation, revision by Elaine Griffiths, Dagmar Otzinger, Margaret Pater Logo design by Erik Norbraten Additional copies available at cost from and Richard Nostbakken, Canada. The Lutheran World Federation All photos © LWF/D. Zimmermann Office for Communication Services unless otherwise indicated P.O Box 2100 CH-1211 Geneva 2 © 2004 The Lutheran World Federation Switzerland Printed by SRO-Kundig, Geneva e-mail [email protected] phone +41 22 791 6370 ISBN 3-905676-34-6 Official Report LWF Tenth Assembly Winnipeg, Canada, 21–31 July 2003 For the Healing of the World 2 The Lutheran World Federation Contents Foreword .........................................................................................7 The LWF from Hong Kong to Winnipeg........................................ 11 Address of the President ............................................................................... 11 Address of the General Secretary ................................................................ 25 Report of the Treasurer ................................................................................ 39 Letter to the Member Churches ..................................................... 47 Message from the Tenth Assembly................................................. 49 Introduction: The World in Need of Healing ............................................... 49 I. The Healing Gift of Justification ......................................................... 50 II. The Healing Gift of Communion .......................................................... 51 III. Healing Divisions within the One Church ........................................... 52 IV. The Mission of the Church in Multifaith Contexts ........................... 54 V. Removing Barriers That Exclude ......................................................... 56 VI. The Church’s Ministry of Healing ........................................................ 57 VII. Justice and Healing in Families ........................................................... 58 VIII. Overcoming Violence ............................................................................ 59 IX. Transforming Economic globalization................................................. 60 X. Healing Creation ................................................................................... 62 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 63 Adopted Resolutions...................................................................... 65 Statements..................................................................................... 71 Action Referred to the Council....................................................... 77 Other Action .................................................................................. 81 For the Healing of the World ........................................................ 83 Keynote Address – Bishop Dr Dr h.c. Margot Kässmann ........................... 83 A Response to the Keynote Address: For the Healing of the World – Bishop Dr Wesley W. Kigasung, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea ................................... 95 A Response to the Keynote Address: For the Healing of the World – A Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean – Ms Virginia Ivañez de Neyeloff ..................................................................... 99 LWF Tenth Assembly – Assembly Report 3 Open Hearing on Indigenous Issues 29 July 2003 ...................... 103 Introductory Remarks................................................................................. 103 Statements ................................................................................................... 104 Message of the Pre-Assembly Youth Conference .......................... 113 Executive Summary ..................................................................................... 113 Report on Status of Visa Difficulties for LWF Tenth Assembly Participants, and Remarks ........................................................... 117 Statement by the Council of the Lutheran World Federation ................. 120 Extraordinary Plenary Session 22 July 2003 .............................................. 121 Sermons ....................................................................................... 133 Opening Eucharistic Service ....................................................................... 133 Closing Eucharistic Service ........................................................................ 141 Expression of Gratitude ............................................................... 145 Governing Bodies of the Lutheran World Federation ................. 151 The Assembly ............................................................................................... 151 The Executive Committee .......................................................................... 151 The Council .................................................................................................. 152 Ecumenical Greetings .................................................................. 157 Greeting from The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ........................... 157 Greeting from the Mennonite World Conference ..................................... 158 Greeting from the World Methodist Council ............................................ 159 Greeting from the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I ................................................. 160 Message from the World Council of Churches .......................................... 161 Greeting from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches ........................ 162 Address of Walter Cardinal Kasper to the Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation ............................................................. 163 Greeting from the International Lutheran Council .................................. 165 Greeting from the Anglican Communion ................................................... 166 Greeting from the Lutheran Church – Canada ......................................... 167 Greeting from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists ........ 168 Greeting from the Anglican Church of Canada......................................... 169 Greeting from the Leuenberg Church Fellowship ..................................... 171 Greeting from the United Church of Canada ............................................ 171 Greeting from the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches ........ 172 4 The Lutheran World Federation Assembly Day-by-Day ................................................................... 173 Opening Day ................................................................................................. 174 Day 1 ............................................................................................................. 176 Day 2 ............................................................................................................. 178 Day 3 ............................................................................................................. 179 Day 4 ............................................................................................................. 180 Day 5 ............................................................................................................. 181 Day 6 ............................................................................................................. 183 Day 7 ............................................................................................................. 185 Day 8 ............................................................................................................. 186 Day 9 ............................................................................................................. 187 Day 10 ........................................................................................................... 188 Assembly Participants .................................................................. 191 By categories................................................................................................ 191 Alphabetical List ......................................................................................... 209 Index............................................................................................ 231 LWF Tenth Assembly – Assembly Report 5 6 The Lutheran World Federation LWF Tenth Assembly, Winnipeg. Scarf-waving dancers grace the “LWF Presents Itself” plenary session. Foreword Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko As we live through an Assembly of the ing, sharing and strengthening of the many Lutheran World Federation (LWF) we are spiritual bonds that exist among the people mindful of the fact that the church, by its of God. very nature, is an assembly (ekklesia). The The LWF brings churches from differ- LWF is a communion of churches, which ent nations into fellowship—some with are themselves assembled—primarily in fresh memories of wounds and scars from worship and in many other ways—in
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