In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

* January 14 – The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is announced as the winner of the LWF ( Light Weight Fighter ) competition.

The Lutheran World Federation ( LWF ) is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran churches headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

However, despite these movements towards greater openness to others, the Church is still only an affiliate member of the Lutheran World Federation because of fears that " Our Lutheran confessional identity may be eroded because many LWF member churches are not as strongly confessional as the LCA some LWF member churches ( like the ELCA in America ) have entered into communion with non-Lutheran churches whose doctrinal position is not in agreement with the Lutheran confessions that the LWF could pressure us into ordaining women.

Unlike the LWF, the member church bodies of the ILC are not required to be in church-fellowship with one another, though many of them are.

In 1997, the NRK sent a delegation to the LWF's Assembly in Hong Kong and became an associate member of the LWF in 1999.

The LWF now has 145 member church bodies in 79 countries representing 70. 3 million of the world's 73. 9 million Lutherans.

", < cite > Concordia Journal April 2005 </ cite >, http :// www. csl. edu / CJApril05. pdf /</ span ></ ref > The LWF acts on behalf of its member churches in areas of common interest such as ecumenical and interfaith relations, theology, humanitarian assistance, human rights, communication, and the various aspects of mission and development work.

In 1972, GD bid on the USAF's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) project.

In the US Air Force's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) program, the F-16 was originally envisaged as inexpensive day fighter, but quickly converted to an all-weather role.

These larger Protestant bodies belong to the LWF on the basis of a Lutheran component rather than on the basis of being a Lutheran church body.

In May 1982, Noko was called from the University of Botswana to join the LWF Department for World Service ( DWS ) where he worked for refugee services related to the churches, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Organization of African Unity and other organizations.

Noko was appointed as general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in June 1994, becoming the first African to hold the position in the LWF.

Dr Ishmael Noko for his second seven-year term as the LWF General Secretary, during the international meeting held in Geneva Switzerland, September 1, 2004.

He has also chaired the Board of Directors for the LWF owned Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem.

Bishop Younan was elected on July 24, 2010 as President of the Lutheran World Federation ( LWF ), an organization that represents 145 churches in 79 countries around the world representing 70 million Christians.

Previously he had served as the LWF vice president for the Asian region from 2004 to 2009.

Indeed, some members are fearful that " Full membership the Lutheran World Federation could lead us down the path of social activism since some LWF churches seem to care more about social justice than justification by faith.

Other LCA congregants look on this more positively though, feeling that " The LWF will help us become more conscious of the social implications of the gospel and provide opportunities to work in partnership with other Lutherans in addressing questions of international significance.

`` Mr. Gross, your report says that ' our function is investigative and advisory and does not in any way derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights as a staff member.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

Carleton is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference and abides by its eligibility rules.

Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

On those rare occasions when a faculty member on tenure is not meeting the standards of the institution, the president must also bear the ultimate burden of decision and action.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

Each pin is individually sprung to a tensioning member which is driven outwardly in the slot.

But Judge Marvin Jones, senior member of the Court, is an elderly gentleman who lives at the nearby Metropolitan Club and desires to walk to work.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

It is still, however, the junior member of the League, if not in years at least in the catching up it has had to do.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

India is the most populous United Nations member with more than 400,000,000 inhabitants.

Mining is secretary-treasurer of the local and Shiflett is a member of its executive committee.

The ACT is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The ACT Chief Minister ( currently Katy Gallagher, Australian Labor Party ) is elected by members of the ACT Assembly.

The ACT Government is a member of the Council of Australian Governments.

The Crown is represented by the Governor-General in the government of the ACT.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

The ACT's land on the Beecroft Peninsula is an " exclave ", that is, an area of territory not physically connected to the main part of the ACT.

Interestingly, this ACT exclave surrounds a small exclave of NSW territory, namely the Point Perpendicular lighthouse which is at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula.

This is a geographic curiosity: an exclave of NSW land enclosed by an exclave of ACT land.

The average level of degree qualification in the ACT is higher than the national average.

All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.

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) The ACT requires the referee to cross-reference the difficulty of a character action with the ability score used to complete that action, determining which column of the ACT is used for that action.

Demonstrated ability in reading, mathematics, and writing, as typically measured in the United States by the SAT or similar tests such as the ACT, have often replaced colleges individual entrance exams, and is often required for admission to higher education.

At some campuses, such as Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

Average ACT score is 22 ; average high school grade point average is 2. 94 ; tuition for 2009-2010 is $ 22, 350, with 100 percent of UIU students receiving need-and / or merit-based financial aid.