wfn.org | TCN: PCT and EECMY become partner churches

["Lydia Ma" <enews@pctpress.org>]

>Taiwan Church News

>2982 Edition

>April 20~26, 2009

>PCT and EECMY become partner churches

>Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

>Written by Lydia Ma

“We are not only sister churches, we must

become as intimate as soul mates,” said newly

>elected PCT Moderator Lin Tsung-Jeng

>during the 54th General Assembly Meeting of

>the PCT as he and Ethiopian Evangelical

>Church Makene Yesus (EECMY) former

>Moderator Iteffa Gobena exchanged gifts to

>mark a new chapter in the partnership of both

>churches.

During this year’s General Assembly Meeting,

>a motion confirming the partnership between

>both churches was passed. The PCT had

>already visited Ethiopia in February 2009 to

>get a better understanding of EECMY’s

>present condition and discuss a partnership

>agreement regarding missions. Since

>EECMY’s General Assembly meeting was

already held in January and PCT’s General

>Assembly meeting would only be held in April,

details of the agreement were finally ratified on

>April 16th.

>EECMY is composed mainly of Presbyterian

>and Lutheran churches and its formal name

>was agreed upon by both churches 30 years

>ago. Rev. Gobena is the first General

>Assembly Moderator of the EECMY and is

>also a Presbyterian. He became EECMY’s

>honorary moderator upon retiring from his

>term as moderator.

>During his speech at the PCT General

>Assembly Meeting, Rev. Gobena emphasized

>on the importance and challenge of holistic

>evangelism in Ethiopia. He praised the PCT

>for doing a wonderful job in spearheading

>holistic evangelism ministries in Taiwan that

>focus on both the physical and the spiritual

>needs of the people.

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