Prime-time television news, amplified guitar riffs and deep-throated traditional drums announced to the city of Mbuji Mayi that Communauté Evangélique Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Evangelical Church of Congo) celebrated its 50th anniversary July 23-27.
These festivities, like the celebrations a week earlier of the church’s parent denomination, Communauté Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Church of Congo), combined worship with teaching and fellowship. An additional feature of the program in Mbuji Mayi was the ordination of 16 pastors, including, for the first time, a woman: Mimi Kanku Mukendi (see “Denomination ordains first woman pastor“).
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