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A Gender awareness workshop on Building an Inclusive Community: Partnership of Women and Men in God’s Mission, is now being held at the Christian Guest House at Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop, which is the first in a series of three workshops scheduled for the years 2013-2015, aims at encouraging and facilitating Asian churches in promoting gender justice and building an inclusive community of God’s people.The Gender Awareness workshop is now in the final phase.
18 Participants coming from the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are strongly committed to conducting follow up programs in their own context. Dr. Yong Ting Jin from Malaysia and Rev. Philip Peacock from India, facilitators of this workshop, have been faithfully accompanying the participants in reflecting on this concern and also in drawing their plans of action as they return to their sending churches/organizations.
Rev. Dr. Henriette Hutabarat Lebang, CCA General Secretary led a Bible Study on the first day. Dr. Kambodji, CCA Consultant on HIV/AIDS shared the growing concerns on HIV/AIDS in Asia, including the gender aspect on the spreading of HIV/AIDS, and the call for Asian churches to respond urgently to this pandemic.
(Please read full report in EGY news) posted by communications on Friday, November 23, 2012 |
