Lutheran World Federation

“We see hope in the small things,” says LWF World Service director Maria Immonen, “but also despair—because the solutions are right there, just out of our reach.”

Bishop Mark S. Hanson, the out­going president of the Lutheran World Fed­eration, appealed to delegates at the LWF gathering in Ger­many to hold together and avoid splits in the face of differences over issues of sexuality.