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Youth Conference in Rwanda

Abstract: ELM Pastor leads delegation to ecumenical youth conference.

In the first ecumenical youth gathering in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide there, more than 100 high-school-age and young adult Christians from six African countries and the United States gathered March 27-30 for the Great Lakes Youth Conference: We are the Future of Africa! in Kigali, Rwanda. Participants, 75 of them Lutheran, gathered to "bear witness" to the more than 1 million people killed in the genocide and to work toward building a future of peace.
According to the ELCA News Service, participants were from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and the United States, and represented Anglican, Assembly of God, Catholic, Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, as well as the YWCA. Participants from the United States came from the ELCA Sierra Pacific Synod, Oakland, Calif.
The ELCA News Service did not report that the one of the leaders of the Oakland delegation was Pr. Craig Minich of the East Bay Lutheran Youth Program and adult chair of the Sierra Pacific Synod Youth Committee. Pr. Minich is rostered with Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries (ELM).

(Vol. II, xxvi April 26, 2008 )

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