We are pleased to report on the successful annual conference of the Central and Eastern European Association of Mission Studies (CEEAMS) which was held in Heiligenkreuz, near Vienna between the 10 – 13 February 2015. Its theme was, Beyond the Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern Europe twenty five years after the political changes. The…
We are very grateful to Deacon Gill Kimber for allowing us to share a copy of her dissertation paper MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?: Developing an understanding of the task of interconfessional mission with reference to the Romanian Orthodox Church and Romanian evangelical and Baptist churches in Transylvania here on the LOI website. Gill’s extensive and challenging paper…
The second day of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative has been wrestling with ‘What is the Gospel?’. This is a particularly challenging question in the ‘hard places’ of our contemporary world. During the afternoon participants heard from Salim S. (name withheld) from Allepo, Syria, who joined the consultation by Skype because he had been unable to obtain a visa to…
On the first day of the Orthodox ecclesiastical year, 63 Orthodox and Evangelical leaders are gathered at Sofia Cultural Centre just outside Helsinki, Finland, to consider “The Gospel as Good News”. Gathered from around the world the participants were welcomed by His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosius on behalf of the local Orthodox Community. Bishop Tapio Luoma, of the Diocese…
We are pleased to be able to announce the recent publication of a brand new (2nd.) Romanian edition of the classic text “Three views on Orthodoxy and Evanelicalism” edited by Bradley Nassif, Michael Horton, Vladimir Berzonsky, George Hancock-Stefan and Edward Rommen. This Romanian edition carries new forwards by two of our LOI participants, Prof. Stelian Tofana…
As the third international Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation begins in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday this week, the Steering Committee request pray for all those attending. The theme of this year’s consultation is “The Gospel as Good News“. The sixty three Evangelical and Orthodox participants will be gathering from countries as far apart as Ghana, Syria, USA,…
Following the publication earlier this month of LOI’s own book “The Mission of God: Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission” one of our LOI participants from Bulgaria (and the UK), Dr. Valentin Kozhuharov, has also published his own book on this topic. Bringing together several journal articles and new material “Orthodox and Inter-Christian Perspectives in…
This week Archbishop Foley Beach led a delegation from the Anglican Church in North America for formal ecumenical discussions with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. They were received in Moscow by HE Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Head of the Department of External Church Relations. The Anglican Church in North America is the conservative church…
“The Gospel as Good News” will be the theme as 63 Orthodox and evangelical leaders gather just outside Helsinki, Finland, from 1-5 September 2015 for the third Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation. We value your prayers for this important gathering. Full details are now available on our website here We will be meeting at the beautiful Sofia Cultural…
We are very pleased to be able to announce the publication (August 2015) of our first book The Mission of God : Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission This important volume is the fruit of three years’ work by Orthodox and Evangelical scholars and two major international consultations. The collection of essays points a way…