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Meserete Kristos Church is a Mennonite denomination in Ethiopia (P'ent'ay/Evangelical). It is a member of the Mennonite World Conference. The headquarters are in Addis Ababa.

History

The Church has its origins in an American mission of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in the 1940s. [1] The first church was founded in 1951 in Addis Ababa. Meserete Kristos Church (meaning "Christ is the foundation Church", based on I Cor. 3:11) was officially founded in 1959. [2] According to a census published in 2022, it would have 1160 churches and 370,909 baptized members.[3]

Meserete Kristos College

The college was located in Addis Ababa until January 2007. Since its founding in 1994, the college has produced 262 graduates,[4] and had 110 full-time and 42 part-time students enrolled in the fall of 2006.[5] Construction of a permanent campus in Bishoftu is underway.[6] In January 2007, all physical assets were moved to the new campus, and classes began there on February 6. The five-story education building, the first of 11 planned buildings, is half-completed, and currently houses all classrooms, academic offices, library, and language and computer labs. A men's residence was completed in 2010. Negash Kebede was installed as College President on 11 March 2007.[4] Kiros Teka Haddis was installed as President on September 12, 2012.[7] Fall 2014 enrollment at the college was 214 students (183 male, 31 female).[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Girma Bekele, The In-Between People: A Reading of David Bosch through the Lens of Mission History and Contemporary Challenges In Ethiopia, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2011, p. 225
  2. ^ Girma Bekele, The In-Between People: A Reading of David Bosch through the Lens of Mission History and Contemporary Challenges In Ethiopia, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2011, p. 225
  3. ^ Mennonite World Conference, Global map, mwc-cmm.org, Canada, retrieved September 19, 2022
  4. ^ a b Meserete Kristos College Newsletter (May 2007).
  5. ^ "Meserete Kristos College moves in," The Mennonite, 15 May 2007
  6. ^ "Meserete Kristos College". Archived from the original on 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2006-05-25.
  7. ^ Meserete Kristos College Newsletter (September 2012).
  8. ^ Meserete Kristos College Newsletter (December 2014): 1.

Relevant literature

  • Mashas, Andrew. 2017. Buried we will grow. Anabaptist Witness. Article about MKC for American audience
  • Hege, Nathan B. 1998. Beyond Our Prayers: Anabaptist Church Growth in Ethiopia, 1948–1998. (Scottdale, PA: Herald).
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