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As the Finnish Mission Council celebrated its centenary on 12 October in Tampere, Finland, the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland, Dr Tapio Luoma, celebrated the witness in mission of the earlier missionaries and generations. Luoma also urged every generation to find answers to the question of how to live fully as a disciple of Jesus and fulfil his commission.

Rev. Dr Hielke Wolters is leaving the WCC after serving for nine years - the last seven years as associate general secretary - but he is not leaving the ecumenical movement to which he has been dedicated since his student days. Officially is he going to retire, but only on the paper. He has many thoughts and plans to realize as he moves back to the Netherlands to serve, in one way or another, the church or the wider ecumenical movement. Wolters said to WCC News with a smile: “I’m open for any suggestion and I know that God will lead me in the right direction when that time comes.”

El Rev. Dr. Hielke Wolters deja el CMI, donde ha trabajado durante nueve años –los últimos siete como secretario general adjunto– pero no deja el movimiento ecuménico, al que se ha dedicado desde que era estudiante. Oficialmente se va a jubilar, pero eso será así solo sobre el papel, porque tiene muchas ideas y planes que llevar a cabo en cuanto regrese a los Países Bajos para seguir trabajando, de una u otra manera, para la iglesia y para el movimiento ecuménico más amplio. Con una sonrisa, el Rev. Wolters declara a las Noticias del CMI: “Estoy abierto a cualquier sugerencia y sé que Dios me guiará en la dirección correcta cuando llegue el momento”.

Hope in a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace formed the integral thread for proceedings at the meeting of the Central Committee of the WCC in Trondheim, Norway this week. The 2016 meeting took place 22-28 June, the second gathering since the Central Committee was elected at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea in 2013.

La esperanza en la peregrinación de justicia y paz fue el hilo conductor de los procedimientos de la reunión del Comité Central del CMI celebrada en Trondheim (Noruega).

Renowned for his friendly attitude and his inspiring speeches, nothing seems impossible for this man. He has faced a multitude of difficulties including severe illness and persecution. At age 62, he committed to rebuild the church in the only officially declared atheist state.

Nada parece imposible para este hombre conocido por su carácter afable y sereno, y por sus elocuentes discursos. Ha tenido que enfrentarse a un sinnúmero de dificultades como la persecución y los periodos de enfermedad grave. Además, a los sesenta y dos años de edad, se le pidió que asumiera un nuevo cargo que representaba el compromiso con un país cuya lengua y cultura le eran desconocidas, y que era el único Estado del mundo declarado oficialmente ateo, en el que se le pedía que reconstruyera la Iglesia.

Members of the WCC's Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network met in the Netherlands to develop a new statement with the working title "Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All". The new document is founded on the premise that persons with disabilities experience marginalization both in societies and in the church communities themselves.