S\u00ed\u00f0ustu daga hef \u00e9g teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed Global Mission Event hj\u00e1 ELCA, en \u00fea\u00f0 er umr\u00e6\u00f0uvettvangur, atbur\u00f0ur \u00fear sem fjalla\u00f0 er um kristnibo\u00f0 \u00ed v\u00ed\u00f0um skilningi og \u00e1byrg\u00f0 l\u00fatersku kirkjunnar \u00e1 umhverfinu og n\u00e1unganum.<\/p>\n
\u00cd dag f\u00f3r \u00e9g \u00e1 1 klst kynningu \u00e1 starfi L\u00fatherska heimssambandsins, og \u00fe\u00e1 s\u00e9r \u00ed lagi Nor\u00f0ur-Amer\u00edku skrifstofunnar sem er sta\u00f0sett \u00ed Chicago. \u00cd upphafi kynningarinnar \u00feurftu \u00e1heyrendur a\u00f0 kynna sig og hva\u00f0an \u00feeir k\u00e6mu og \u00e9g sag\u00f0ist a\u00f0 sj\u00e1lfs\u00f6g\u00f0u vera fr\u00e1 \u00cdslandi. \u00deetta vakti nokkra athygli og \u00feegar fyrirlestrinum lauk kom Priscilla Singh<\/a>, sem haf\u00f0i seti\u00f0 aftast \u00e1 fyrirlestrinum a\u00f0 m\u00e1li vi\u00f0 mig og spur\u00f0i hvort \u00e9g v\u00e6ri virkilega fr\u00e1 \u00cdslandi, h\u00fan hef\u00f0i komi\u00f0 \u00feanga\u00f0 tv\u00edvegis og \u00feekkti svol\u00edti\u00f0 af \u00cdslendingum, h\u00fan nefndi m.a. Krist\u00ednu T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttur stj\u00f3rnarmann \u00ed LWF, Bernhar\u00f0 Gu\u00f0mundsson, Au\u00f0i Eir og s\u00ed\u00f0an einhverja \u00c1sgeirsd\u00f3ttur, sem \u00e9g var a\u00f0 fatta r\u00e9tt \u00ed \u00feessu a\u00f0 er Irma Sj\u00f6fn \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir. \u00c9g \u00e1kva\u00f0 a\u00f0 spyrja Priscilla hvar h\u00fan ynni og \u00fe\u00e1 kom \u00ed lj\u00f3s a\u00f0 h\u00fan vinnur \u00e1 skrifstofu l\u00faterska heimssambandsins \u00ed Department for Mission and Development.<\/a> \u00c9g tengdi au\u00f0vita\u00f0 samstundis vi\u00f0 umr\u00e6\u00f0ur sem \u00e1ttu s\u00e9r sta\u00f0 \u00ed Vatnask\u00f3gi fyrir nokkrum vikum, og nefndi vi\u00f0 hana a\u00f0 \u00e1g\u00e6tur vinur minn hef\u00f0i veri\u00f0 \u00ed vi\u00f0tali vegna starfs \u00e1 deildinni. Konan kanna\u00f0ist vi\u00f0 m\u00e1li\u00f0 og sag\u00f0i a\u00f0 h\u00fan hef\u00f0i \u00fev\u00ed mi\u00f0ur veri\u00f0 \u00e1 fer\u00f0alagi \u00feegar vi\u00f0tali\u00f0 var, \u00fea\u00f0 v\u00e6ri nefnilega alltaf gaman a\u00f0 hitta \u00cdslendinga. Vi\u00f0 spj\u00f6llu\u00f0um s\u00ed\u00f0an saman um hvernig vinnusta\u00f0ur LWF v\u00e6ri og \u00fea\u00f0 st\u00f6\u00f0uga \u00e1reiti sem v\u00e6ri \u00e1 starfsf\u00f3lki sambandsins. M\u00e9r t\u00f3kst ekki a\u00f0 f\u00e1 upp \u00far henni hver v\u00e6ri n\u00e6sti starfsma\u00f0urinn \u00e1 deildinni, \u00e9g kunni enda ekki vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 reyna miki\u00f0 :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" S\u00ed\u00f0ustu daga hef \u00e9g teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed Global Mission Event hj\u00e1 ELCA, en \u00fea\u00f0 er umr\u00e6\u00f0uvettvangur, atbur\u00f0ur \u00fear sem fjalla\u00f0 er um kristnibo\u00f0 \u00ed v\u00ed\u00f0um skilningi og \u00e1byrg\u00f0 l\u00fatersku kirkjunnar \u00e1 umhverfinu og n\u00e1unganum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islenska","tag-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}