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Leaders Discuss Issues in Spanish-Speaking Ministries
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA (September 12, 2005) - A special leadership conference this
past weekend brought together 36 ministry leaders from Spanish-speaking
countries where the Evangelical Covenant Church and many affiliated
ministries are working.
Purpose of the gathering was to seek ways of better integrating the
ministries of a number of groups, including CIPE (Confraternity of
Spanish-speaking Covenant Churches); Covenant churches from the United
States and Canada (ECC); representatives of ministries in Sweden, Norway
and Finland; and the national churches of Argentina, Chile, Colombia,
Ecuador and Mexico, along with representatives of associate churches or
ministries in the United States - MHIPE (Hispanic Ministries of the
Evangelical Covenant Church), and Spain (Nueva Vida Church of La Coruña).
ECC representatives included executive ministers Curt Peterson, Covenant
World Mission, and Ruth Hill, Women Ministries. ECC President Glenn
Palmberg also participated.
Participants also included the church presidents in all of the
Spanish-speaking countries where the Covenant is involved: Patricio
Valenzuela, Argentina; Marcus Sobarzo, Chile; Jorge Julian Perez,
Colombia; Virgilio Delgado, Ecuador; and Alfonso Perez Parra, Mexico,
along with Walter Contreras, representing MHIPE, and Robert Reed,
representing Spain.
The representatives addressed issues such as mission-sending agencies,
communication and financial accountability. The discussion groups and
interaction led to the signing of the "Agreement of Medellin," the first
of its kind for CIPE.
The representative from Mexico, Francisco Sotelo, invited attendees to
participate in CIPE VII, which will be held in Mexico in January 2007
and will address the topic "The Mission of the Church in Today's World."
Other upcoming events include Women (CDIPE) and Young Adults, January
18-21, and a church-level consultation, January 21-25.
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