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The Seventh Biennial General Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sierra Leone (ELCSL) has ended in Kenema district. The event which lasted four days from the 3rd – 6th September,2009, had the theme “Rise up and walk” (Act 3:6).
A total of 22 congregations with 101 delegates including heads of Churches, observers and Rev. Kathryn L. Warn (Kate), the first missionary from the companion synod, the Northern Texas- Northern Louisiana synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) were in attendance.
Highlights of the Assembly were the re-election of Bishop Tom Barnett as the Bishop of the ELCSL for another six-year term, the launching of the Lutheran Youth Organisation- Sierra Leone,(LYO-SL) and the ground breaking of the Incarnation Lutheran Church in Kenema.
