The Lutheran Church of Rwanda has elected a new council to run its affairs for the next session.

The Council meeting which took place in the Eastern Province of Nyagatare district was presided over by Bishop George Wilson Kalisa .

The elected Council members included the Rev. Seburikoko who emerged as the new Bishop assistant (Dean), replacing Dean Celestin Sarambuye who was the LCR Dean since 2003 and the  Rev. John Rutsindintwarane who retained his position as the General Secretary of LCR . The meeting also elected Mr. Justice Mahundaza  as  the new Assistant General Secretary .A church service presided over by Bishop Kalisa was held to mark the successful ceremony.

A four day (14-17 April 2008) training workshop which was sponsored by LWF/DMD was held in Nairobi Kenya for the communicators drawn from the Lutheran Churches of Central and Eastern Africa (LUCCEA). LUCCEA embraces the Lutheran churches in Eastern and Central Africa including: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Rev. John Halake, ELCK officially opened the training workshop

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) will re-introduce the Democracy and Human Rights desk effective June, 2008 after it had stopped its operations due to lack of funds.

The Lutheran Church in Rwanda hosted more than eighty five youth across the religious divide who gathered at Presbyterian centre in Kigali, Rwanda from 27th – 30th March, 2008, in what many saw as one of the huge youth gatherings witnessed in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide which left more than a million people dead. The conference held under the banner ‘Great Lakes Youth conference: we are the future of Africa! Brought together Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans and youth from Assembly of God churches.