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For Immediate Release
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AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF REFORMED CHURCHES LAUNCHED

Yaounde, Cameroon -- An Alliance of Reformed Churches has been launched in 
Africa, the Rev. Dr. Setri Nyomi, General Secretary of the World Reformed 
Churches announced at the All Africa Conference of Churches' women and 
youth pre-assembly opening ceremony Wednesday night (Nov. 19) in Yaounde.

He said the launching of the Alliance of Reformed Churches in Africa 
(ARCA) was chosen to coincide with the women and youth pre-assembly in 
recognition that women are the givers of life as they give birth to 
babies, while the youth are the hope of Africa.

He said his organization was not in competition with the AACC as an 
ecumenical movement for the church in Africa, but rather was to see how 
they can work together to strengthen AACC in a manner that will reflect 
theological ways to tackle challenges like injustice, conflicts, 
exclusions, poverty eradication, diseases and many others.

He affirmed that there was none other than AACC that was prepared to lead 
the church in Africa and that together, they are all looking at those 
challenges in Africa. He said there was commitment on the members of the 
ARCA in the "mission that God has called us to together."

Rev. Nyomi said it was time the continent shouldered its own 
responsibility and not look to the West. In the past, he said, people 
talked of "we want to be, we want to be, but now we say, we are."

The idea of having ARCA was the vision of the Rev. Dr. John Gatu from 
Kenya. The president of the newly born body is the Rev. Dr. Masi Gams from 
Cameroon.  He is supported by four representatives from southern, western, 
eastern and central Africa regions.

AANA News

By Joseph K'Amolo

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