The LOI Steering Group will meet at the Coptic Centre in Stevenage, UK, from 19 -21 January 2015. The two major issues before them will be the future work of LOI after 2015 and the planning of the 2015 consultation in Finland.
The first of these topics is particularly critical at this time. It was never envisioned that LOI would be simply a series of consultations. The 2015 Consultation in Finland, our third, is likely to be the last global consultation (at least for a few years). With a growing international movement it is now very important that we find the right way forward, either through regional groups and consultations or in other ways, to strengthen and grow the movement. The Steering Committee is seeking prayer support as it meets and works on these issues.
As those of us within LOI seek to discover appropriate ways forward for Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in mission we are encouraged to see that Orthodox and Catholic leaders are also discovering new ways to seek each other’s blessing as illustrated by this recent photograph of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis.
