Collins Shava from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Zimbabwe is a youth delegate and serves as a steward at the Twelfth LWF Assembly. In this text, he shares his experience from the youth pre-assembly and the development of the youth priorities for the next seven years.
The second day of the youth pre-assembly was an important day for me. Important in the sense that we as youth had the opportunity to decide and vote for LWF youth priorities in 2018-2023.
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As a fairly new participant to an LWF meeting, I felt the passion, honour and the responsibility to decide priorities on behalf of so many Lutheran youths across the globe. The session was in afternoon, I even thought it would not be interesting as young people would have become tired and exhausted. I was amazed with the energy we had and the passion we had when the time came.
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