Pray For
- conference leadership as they move forward with church planting and discipleship
- Christians to have continued passion for evangelism
- the implementation and resources for a new five-year strategic plan leading the church toward further expansion and sustainability
- the vision of a ministry center in Addis Ababa
PRESENT MINISTRIES
The Ethiopian FMC has stepped up its church-planting efforts and has seen a rapid increase in new churches and training programs to multiply church planters and pastors. Outreach ministries include International Child Care Ministries (ICCM) schools and a feeding and study program. The superintendent has a vision for further church planting in several parts of the country to double their size by 2034.
ORIGINS
This work began in 1998 through the partnership of Free Methodist World Missions and the Free Methodist Church in Southern California. The first Free Methodist Church service was held in May 1999. On March 9, 2012, the Ethiopia FMC gained provisional annual conference status.
Country Leader
Superintendent Mekebib Desta
Ethiopia Annual Conference
Prayercast | Ethiopia
Reaching the Unreached
COUNTRY STATISTICS
Annual Conference
- Population: 114,025,000
- Evangelical Christians: 18.14%
- FM Work Opened: 1999
- FM Churches: 46
- FMC Membership: 11,590
- Ordained Ministers: 11
- Ministerial Candidates: 7
- Superintendent: Mekebib Desta
- Ecclesiastical Accountability: Free Methodist Church USA through the Board of Bishops
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Join the ministry in Ethiopia
Church Planting & Development
Supporting Ethiopia Church Planting and Development (CPD) will help fund:
Ethiopia’s FM churches in six geographical areas. Our support, together with a more substantial portion from the Ethiopian churches, helps these churches carry out their ministries and support their pastors.
The significant expense to bring pastors and delegates together for annual conference meetings. (The local churches of Ethiopia are spread quite widely.)
Costs associated with Supt. Makebib bringing pastoral training to different areas of Ethiopia: continuing education for district leaders, participants’ food and transportation for seminars and the overall organizing from Addis Ababa.