Current Ministry

in Myanmar

Overview

The Myanmar Conference was established in March 2005 when four previously independent Christian groups agreed to form an Advent Christian Conference and work together as one umbrella movement.

Because of the political situation in Myanmar – the country is ruled by a cruel and oppressive military junta, which illegally seized power in 1962 – to protect the security and safety of our Christian brothers and sisters in Myanmar, we can't be very specific in naming names, showing pictures or giving dates, places or other information that may lead to the identification of those involved in the Conference and its ministries.

Advent Christians, and other Christians, minister under very difficult and dangerous conditions in a country that knows no democracy and where the ruling military junta has as one of its stated and published aims, “There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced” and has a Ministry of Religious Affairs with a program called the "Program to Destroy the Christian Religion in Burma."

The Myanmar Conference comprises the following groups, which are based in larger cities of the country. As well as their local evangelistic ministries, all of the groups are involved in outreach ministries to the unreached in other States and divisions of Myanmar.

The leaders make up the guiding committee of the organisation and the responsibility of leadership rotates on an annual basis around the leaders of those organisations.

• Pastor T's Ministry

  • This was the first organization in Myanmar to make contact with ACGC.

  • This group has three churches with a total of 177 members in the major city in which it is based.

  • It also has four other churches with full-time workers in two other States of the country as it ministers in previously unreached areas; there are 120 members in these four churches. They have a total of eight full-time workers.

  • The group has a Children’s Home where 11 children are being cared for. The ages of the children range from five to 18 years with most under 12 years.

  • The group has a “Mission Field” in the southern area of the country, which was affected by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. There are presently no Christians, no church and no “missionaries” working there, but Pastor T has visited seven times since Nargis and is building friendships with a view to outreach in the future. In faith, Pastor T has purchased a small (60 feet by 60 feet) piece of land in the area, believing that in God’s time he will plant a church there.

• Pastor K's Ministry

  • This movement has four churches and four full-time workers with a total of 210 members in the city in which it is based.

  • It also has three other churches with full-time workers in other parts of the country as it ministers in previously unreached areas; there are 129 members in these three churches.

  • Pastor K leads a Bible School, which presently has seven full-time students taking a three-year course in the Burmese language,

  • and a Children’s Home, which cares for nine children.

• Pastor D's Ministry

  • This group has four city churches and six churches in other areas of the country, with seven full-time workers and a total of 300 members.

  • They also have an orphanage with 15 children and one volunteer helper in the city, and has arranged and pays for the care of 20 other orphans in the south of the country that was devastated in May 2008 by Cyclone Nargis. Because the regime will not allow these children to be moved from their home area and will not allow Christian organizations to help them, they can't be cared for personally by the group.

• For all other Ministries & Workers

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