Christian Church of Sumba

Christian Church of Sumba is Calvinist church in Indonesia, a member of World Communion of Reformed Churches.[1] The denomination was established on 15 January 1947. Today, the church has congregations in various cities outside the island of Sumba.[2]

There are churches in Sumba, Flores, Rote-Ndao, Kupang, Timor, Bali, Java, Sulawesi.[3]

It has 550,000 members, the majority of the Christian population in Sumba in 2004. The church has been growing steadily.[4]

In 2012, the church had approximately 600,000 members and 712 congregations.[2] In 1907, Dutch Reformed started the mission in Sumba and they founded a number of congregations. By the 1940s, there were 5,000 Christians in Sumba. The official founding date is 1947. The church adheres to the Heidelberg Catechism[5]

References
  1. "Member churches | Bringing together 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide". Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  2. id:Gereja Kristen Sumba
  3. id:Gereja Kristen Sumba#Wilayah Pelayanan
  4. www.pcimissionoverseas.org/partners/item/12/christian-church-of-sumba-gks/
  5. Christoph Fasse. "Adressdatenbank reformierter Kirchen und Einrichtungen". reformiert-online.net. Retrieved 6 June 2014.


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