P1090929With just a month to go before 60 participants from around the world will gather at the monastery of St. Vlash in Albania for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation, a whole new section has just been published on our website.

Especially important for those actually participating in the consultation, these pages will also inform the prayer of those who support our work in other ways.  There are a total of 12 new pages covering everything from the programme, names of participants and background reading to travel instructions and weather advice!

Please visit the website to read these new pages.

Do also visit the LOI prayer page and uphold all our work in prayer – we need it!

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