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August 29 2003

Geneva: Setri Nyomi today wrote to Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, congratulating him on his election as the next general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

Kobia is an ordained minister in the Methodist Church in Kenya and has wide ecumenical experience.

He served as WCC executive secretary for Urban Rural Mission, and as general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Kenya. He helped reorganise the Zimbabwe Christian Council after independence, chaired peace talks for Sudan in 1991, and in 1992 chaired Kenya’s National Election Monitoring Unit. He returned to Geneva in 1993 to become executive director of the WCC’s Justice, Peace and Creation unit and is currently WCC special representative for Africa.

He will take up his new post in January 2004, succeeding Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

The letter follows.

Dear Sam,

It is with joy that we received news of your election as the next general secretary of the World Council of Churches. Congratulations. We thank God for calling you at this time to put your enormous gifts and wide experience at the disposal of the ecumenical movement through your leading its privileged instrument, the WCC. May God grant you clear vision, wisdom, good health and strength as you prepare to take on this role.

Yours is a calling to lead the WCC in these challenging times into new opportunities - stimulating a WCC which is experienced by its member churches as spiritually vibrant and institutionally relevant to their challenges We have no doubts that God has equipped you fully for such tasks.

Undoubtedly, the ecumenical scene today calls for changes. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has since the 1940s been very committed to partnership with the WCC. I reiterate this commitment to you as we all search together for a new configuration.

On behalf of our president, Rev. Professor CS Song, our executive committee colleagues here in Geneva, and the entire Warc family all over the world, I congratulate you and assure you of our prayers.

Setri Nyomi, general secretary

 

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