{"id":26780,"date":"2020-01-08T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/?p=26780"},"modified":"2020-01-08T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:53:54","slug":"44th-scac-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/?p=26780","title":{"rendered":"44th SCAC: Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

English District Conference Formed<\/strong>
\nEnglish congregation Churches entered a new era when the formation of an English District Conference (EDC) received overwhelming blessings at the 44th Annual Conference, with a large majority of 245 votes out of a total of 297.<\/p>\n

The EDC will include 6 churches, 2 preaching centres and 2 churches with English service, namely:
\nKuching \u2013 Faith (FMC), Tabuan Trinity (TTMC), Living Hope Preaching Centre (LHMPC)
\nSibu \u2013 Wesley (WMC), Permai Preaching Centre (PMPC)
\nBintulu \u2013 Emmanuel Methodist Church (EMC)
\nMiri \u2013 Grace (GMC), Agape Grace (AGMC), Senadin Preaching
\nCentre (SMPC)
\nSarikei \u2013 Nyelong Park Methodist Church (NPMC)<\/p>\n

All these churches have only English congregation except for FMC and WMC, which started as English ministry churches, and later added the Chinese service.<\/p>\n

NPMC and SMPC are Chinese Churches having English service. They will continue to be under their respective present District Conference but join EDC as observers. Trinity Methodist Church will be invited as observer
\ntoo.<\/p>\n

The English-speaking churches have been under their respective Chinese District Conferences (CDC) as well as the English Ministry Committee (EMC). Operationally speaking, both are weak links in terms of church growth and ministry. Formation of EDC is believed to bring great benefits for all the English-speaking churches<\/p>\n

An EDC, headed by a District Superintendent, will provide a better platform for administrative, organizational and developmental effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The initial formation of 7 District Commissions under EDC include: Ministry, Laity, Christian Education, Worship & Music, Evangelism, Missions and Christian Social Concerns.<\/p>\n

BM Ministry Hive Off<\/strong>
\nPreviously parked under Board of Evangelism, the fast growing BM Ministry
\nis ready to be an independent entity. It was thus unanimously agreed
\nat this 44th Annual Conference for the formation of the Board of BM Ministry
\nwith its board members for year 2020 as follows:
\nRev Nicholas Tan, Rev Lim Hock Sing, Rev Sency Ling, Rev Ling Biu,
\nRev Tann Kedal, Pastor Susanty Kedal, Wong Kai Lim, Alex Wong,
\nJames Wong, Yong Jing Jing, Susana Leong, Alex Ha.<\/p>\n

New District Superintendents<\/strong>
\nWith Rev Dr Lau Hui Ming of Kuching West District and Rev Tony Chieng of Bintangor District having served their full term as district superintendents for six years, the batons will be handed over to Rev Timothy Ling and Rev Margaret Wong respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rev Lenita Tiong has been appointed as the District Superintendent of the newly formed English District Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English District Conference Formed English congregation Churches entered a new era when the formation of an English District Conference (EDC) received overwhelming blessings at the 44th Annual Conference, with a large majority of 245 votes out of a total of 297. The EDC will include 6 churches, 2 preaching centres and 2 churches with English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,233,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}