One of the outcomes of the third bi-annual meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders was the process of religious leaders taking fuller ownership of the Board and undertaking to plan and to enhance its activities. To this end, a steering committee was created. Its' members include:

*Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh, Chairperson of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha, United Kingdom
*Rabbi Richard Marker, Vice-President, IJCIC, USA
*Swami Atmapriyananda, Ramakrishna Mission, India
*Dr. Maria Reis Habito (Dharma Master Hsin Dao's representative), International Program Director of the Museum of World Religions
*Khandro Rinpoche, Mindrolling Monastery, India
*Metropolitan Nikitas Lulias, Orthodox Church, USA
*Dr. Nazeer Ahmed (Sheikh Hisham Kabbani’s representative), Exec. Director, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture, USA

The steering committee has held several consultations and in person meetings. One of the fruits of this process has been the articulation of seven points, that constitute the ethos and vision of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders. These grow from the experience of the work of the Board, since its creation in 2003, and provide the guidelines for generating future activities of the Board. Following are the seven points, developed at the recently held Paris meeting:

1. Activities of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders (EBWRL) should be based on the common virtue of humility as a fundamental principle of the spiritual life and an orienting principle of religious leadership.  We seek to manifest this attitude in our relationship to other traditions, their wisdom and in our implementation of that wisdom in meeting today’s challenges.

2. We acknowledge the importance of membership in the EBWRL and partaking of its activities as a source for personal growth and transformation of individual participants.

3. We affirm a shared sense of need to extend our experience and learning at Elijah to our communities.

4. Ongoing work of the EBWRL should accordingly seek to strike a balance between personal processes of participants and collectively owning our responsibility in relation to the world.

5. In relating to other religions, we recognize and respect differences while seeking to uncover our common spiritual ground

6. We recognize the profundity and complexity of our religious traditions, their multiple manifestations as well as the challenges of the day and see our own efforts at humility-based-learning from other traditions as a way of respecting those complexities.

7. Based on the above, we seek to not only share these recognitions with our own communities but also to engage those who are not associated with religion, especially the younger generation, in dialogue with the sense of complexity and wisdom as they are known to us through our own search.