2010 Ecumenical Journey
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.
Read MoreMitzi Budde, a member of the 2010 ELCA Ecumenical Journey, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, with Orthodox Bishop Makarios of Lamsakos, Geneva, and Nikolaos Manginas, a journalist who works with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Istanbul. All three attended a farewell luncheon for the ELCA delegation in Istanbul Feb. 9.
Three members of the ELCA delegation with Bishop Brian Farrell, second from left, secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity -- from left, Deborah Chenoweth, Hood River, Ore., ELCA Church Council; the Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan., ELCA Church Council; and Mitzi Budde, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, and Lutheran co-chair, Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee.