God of life, lead us to justice and peace

The title of this blog is the theme of this 10th Assembly of the WCC. Each day will be dedicated to a different aspect of this theme in morning prayer, Bible studies, plenary sessions and meetings.

These past two days have been filled with planning, rehearsing for opening worship and setting up the hall for worship. I will including pictures of the opening worship tomorrow.

Today was the day of demonstration against the WCC. The demonstration was peaceful and no one threatened us as we walked through their midst. However, we found out later that there was a bomb threat. The SWAT team was called in with their dogs to search the conference centre--just to add a bit of excitement. It is sad how people supposedly committed to the same faith can be so adamantly opposed to one another. The United Church of Canada was one of their targets, as was Namibia. I just happened to be walking through the crowd with Nangula, the Moderator of our Worship Planning Committee, who was from Namibia. Fortunately, the crowd was none the wiser.

Kari, from Norway, Nangula from Namibia and myself

Truly our prayer is: God of life, lead us to justice and peace.