The Orthodox Mission Network (OMN) has just published its latest newsletter with information about Orthodox mission developments around the world. They are able to report the printing of the first Orthodox book in the local language in Vietnam as well as other books in the Philippines. In Kenya work continues with a secondary school and in India a village has been helped with access to clean water.
The OMN are also planning mission training in Albania next June. Read the full newsletter here.
As the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative prepares to gather for its consultation in Albania (in two day’s time) we have received news from the Logos Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, where Orthodox and Evangelical Christians are together responding to a crisis. Our contact there writes, “the Logos Centre (www.kiev-logoscenter.org) have opened our doors to those internally displaced people…
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have announced a very interesting three week summer school for 2014 under the title “Learning about Orthodox Theology, past and present”. It will take place from 23 June to 12 July 2014 and will be taught in English. Full details can be seen here Summer School
All is now set for the 2014 LOI Consultation in Albania. 56 participants have registered from many different countries around the world and we will also be joined by several local observers. If you are unable to join us in Albania this year please do pray for those gathered and seek God’s guidance and blessing…
The Coptic Church Centre at Stevenage in England was, as usual, the venue for the annual residential meeting of the LOI Board. The main item we discussed was next year’s consultation, scheduled for 5-8 June at Holy Cross Orthodox Seminary near Boston. The theme is ‘Discipleship’, following on from the upcoming CWME gathering in Tanzania….
Lapidomedia have today published an article on the future of the church in Syria by David Knowles based on an interview with a young Syrian Christian refugee now living in Canada. Although not all commentators on this region would agree with his analysis, Knowles article is worth reading as we pray for the future of the…
At the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Leo and Metropolitan Ambrosius, we will be meeting in the wonderful setting of Sofia Cultural Centre at Lähdeniemi Källviksudden. This is on a small sea peninsular north east of Helsinki and only a short distance from the airport. Sophia is also the residence of Metropolitan Ambrosius as metropolitan bishop of Helsinki. Participants will be…