Sri Lanka

FMC IN SRI LANKA

PRESENT MINISTRIES

Current priorities include developing leaders and building an organizational structure. Ministry teams for the FMC in Canada travel to Sri Lanka twice each year to provide training and organizational support. Existing churches are located in Colombo, the capital, and in the mountainous tea-production areas in the island’s center. Superintendent Rev. G.P. Suri Jayamanie has served three consecutive three-year terms, leading the work and encouraging pastors and churches.

ORIGINS

In 2002, Tamil (with Sri Lankan background) Free Methodist pastors in Toronto, Canada, inquired about building relationships with a collection of independent pastors and churches in Sri Lanka. Following an exploratory visit by a Canadian FM team in early 2003, a process was initiated to provide leadership development to a group of pastors with a view to draw these pastors into the Free Methodist Church. Both Sinhala and Tamil peoples were represented in the founding group.

Country Statistics

Mission District

Canada General Conference

Population: 20,987,123
Evangelical Christians: 1.2%
FM Work Opened: 2004
FM Churches: 18
FMC Membership: 1,534
Ecclesiastical Accountability: the Free Methodist Church in Canada

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Pray

Pray for:

• protection and wisdom for the Canadian ministry teams
• as many as 35,000 villages that have not had any Christian contact
• safety and wisdom for Christians, both lay and clergy, as they interact with neighbors and civil authorities from other religious backgrounds (Physical, social and economic persecution is an everyday reality for many believers in Sri Lanka.)
• children’s lives to be changed through ICCM (ICCM Canada oversees the sponsorship program.)

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