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“Be with us, Lord, as we experience new places and meet new people, and help us to be open to all whom you put in our path,” she prayed. “Especially help us to immerse more deeply in the context of Switzerland, international Geneva as our context even as we inhabit the global scope of our shared work.”
After 60 years of sharing space, the Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches secretariats will exist in different spaces, and will shape and be shaped by those spaces. “However we are shaped and we shape those places, our journey together in Christ continues in the hope that the good news of Jesus Christ makes possible, and the strength to face our current times together,” said Nalwamba. “Wherever our paths may take us as ecumenical partners, our ultimate home resides with God.”
She concluded: “We enter into the new dwelling of the Lutheran World Federation and that of the World Council of Churches with mutual recognition, challenged to not do alone what we must do together – even at a distance, especially at a distance.”
