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National leaders' training renews Chinese churches in Myanmar

By: Triston Wong, Gospel Herald
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Thursday, 20 November 2008, 16:25 (MYT)
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According to Chinese Centre for World Evangelism (CCOWE), its regional committee in Myanmar recently held a five-day lay-leader discipleship training from November 3-7. Over 100 church ministers, elders and deacons, seminary professors and students, and Chinese missionaries serving locally participated in the conference.

Rev. Morley Lee, CCCOWE International Director, and the Assistant Executive Director led the conference held in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

Focusing on “Church Renewal”, the conference provided many workshops such as Sunday Service message preparation, relationship between the deacons, elders and the pastor, finding the reason of the conflict within the church, ensuring the unity within the church, staff leaderships and leadership in the tasks, partnerships in the team and with individuals, church administration and others. Moreover, CCCOWE has released the work reports, which consist of around 20 courses.

According to the press release, some participants traveled more than 30 hours by car and others had to reconnect multiple flights to get to the event center. Although these people were fatigued from long-distance traveling, they were renewed in spirit after listening to the messages delivered at the conference.

Focusing on “Renewal of Service”, the morning Bible-studies taught about the proper understanding of service through the book of Nehemiah. The night Bible-studies explicated John 21, which touched upon the basis, drive, and prices for church renewal. Throughout the conference, the message that God values the workers more than the work itself was repeatedly spoken.

In the ministry reports, staffs of churches in Myanmar said that ever since the storm that ravaged Burma in May this year, which heavily damaged their church, they were unable to repair it. Instead, they have been dedicating full-time in rebuilding the churches and homes in the disaster-stricken areas that were completely destroyed. Their spirit of service exemplified the cliché that giving is better than receiving.

The conference concluded after five days of fruitful gathering.

CCCOWE is an evangelistic movement born from a shared vision of believers and churches, striving towards "Chinese Churches in One Accord, Proclaiming the Gospel until Christ's Return." Since its establishment in 1976, CCCOWE has been serving the movement and facilitating pertinent ministries.

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