Monday, August 17, 2009
11,000 members expected to gather
Print this page Email this page More than eleven thousand members of the Methodist Church Suva Circuit will crowd the Centenary Church next Saturday at the opening of the annual conference.Assistant general secretary Reverend Tevita Nawadra said with the additional numbers from overseas, the church will not fit everyone.However, Reverend Nawadra is confident that their visitors from the United States and Australia will enjoy a wonderful fellowship in Fiji. There is an audio file attached to this story. Please login to listen.Meanwhile, the members of the congregation in the US will open the conference with their songs and soli while members from Australia will close the conferenceThe Church has agreed with Government's decision not to hold meetings at Furnival Park in Toorak.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Churches must not burden people but seek to ease peoples burden
The Methodis church has to take responsibility for actions of it’s clergy and leaders for events pre-1987 up to now. it’s intimate involvement with nationalistic elements in the past has brought about the present situation. There was no outcry from the church in 1987 or 2000. Some of it’s leaders figured prominently in those two coups. Tomasi Kanailagi was not content with his salary as the church president but wanted to be a senator as well!
I’ve just returned from a three week trip to Fiji. The whole time I was there, the consistent comment from the methodists I spoke to was one of thanks that the conference was canceled. Why? Because the conference had evolved into something so expensive and extravagant that the common people continue to be burdened with the financial obligations.
Reverend Tuwere is right. Cancel the conference and give the people time to recover. it is also time for the church to streamline it’s operations and practice sound fiscal management, so it can get out of and stay out of debt, so it doesn’t continue to be a burden on it’s membership.
Churches are not supposed to burden people, they’re supposed to be a means through which people’s burdens can be eased.
kosakosa
I’ve just returned from a three week trip to Fiji. The whole time I was there, the consistent comment from the methodists I spoke to was one of thanks that the conference was canceled. Why? Because the conference had evolved into something so expensive and extravagant that the common people continue to be burdened with the financial obligations.
Reverend Tuwere is right. Cancel the conference and give the people time to recover. it is also time for the church to streamline it’s operations and practice sound fiscal management, so it can get out of and stay out of debt, so it doesn’t continue to be a burden on it’s membership.
Churches are not supposed to burden people, they’re supposed to be a means through which people’s burdens can be eased.
kosakosa
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