The Community of Christian Churches in Africa (CECA) has become the newest member body of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA).
The convention, with 30,000-plus members, was unanimously received into the international organisation in a vote taken during the General Council Meeting in Accra, Ghana, after a recommendation by the Membership Committee.
CECA is led by Enoch B Dusingizimna, President and General Secretary, and has 115 churches and 141 pastors.
Formed in November 1991, CECA is based in French-speaking Rwanda but also has ministries in Burundi, Uganda, and in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ministry activities include church planting, training, HIV and Aids work, ministry to prison inmates, as well as entrepreneurship promotion and social services such as education and health services.
CECA has approximately 3,000 students enrolled in five high schools, two primary schools, 28 kindergarten schools, and a Bible school, in addition to 54 basic literacy centres in local churches around the country.
Fifty-five per cent of its students are orphans "because of war and HIV/Aids," a church report says.
The BWA now has a membership of 212 conventions and unions.
For more information on the BWA, please visit: www.bwanet.org
[Source: BWA]
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