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HYATTSVILLE ? One of the newest fellowships in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, and one of the most unique, was featured in a story in the July-August issue of Interpreter.



      Chhunga 

The Mizo United Methodist Fellowship, a congregation of asylees from Burma (Myanmar), is led by the Rev. Biak Chhunga, who conducts the services in Mizo, an ethnic language of Burma. ?We?re happy to have a service in our own language,? he said.


The fellowship was started in 2004 as a new church start initiative, and supported by a Board of Congregational Life grant for $30,000.


?Mizo are very evangelical,? Chhunga said. ?We have a strong sense that the church was founded to do mission work. With no mission, the church will die.? The fellowship acts on their beliefs. It supports three missionaries in Burma.

 


       Masaba


Another short story in the same issue of the Interpreter tells of the ministry that Community UMC in Crofton has to support Zimbabwean Fortune Masaba to graduation from the University of Maryland. The church has covered the $100,000 in tuition and expenses for their ?adopted son,? who is the real life son of the Revs. Remember and Mary Masaba, both United Methodist pastors in Harare. Community UMC brought the Masaba parents to their son?s graduation in computer science in May. They are helping him to find a job.

                                                                  -Across the Conference is compiled 
and written by Linda Worthington

 


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