SEOUL, South Korea - Some 10,000 Methodists and Wesleyan family members opened the 19th World Methodist Conference for reconciliation and peace Thursday at Kum Nan Church in South Korea.
At a time when tensions are increasing between North Korea and the rest of the world, reconciliation took on an urgent and more significant meaning at this year’s quinquennial conference.
“God has given us the gift of reconciliation,” His Eminence Sunday Mbang, WMC chairperson, told the thousands packed inside the three-story sanctuary. “What have you done with this gift?”
Mbang challenged the representatives who came from 132 countries to take part in the ministry of reconciliation and extend its message to the world. “You will become messengers for reconciliation,” he said.
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