Ecumenical Commitment
GKI committed to ecumenism by way of become active member of World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, and co-founder of Christian Conference of Asia and Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI).
The uniting of GKI has been positioning GKI as the only church unity in the Indonesian ecumenical family, and one of the eight churches in the Asian and one of the eighteen churches in the global ecumenical family which formed united and uniting churches. GKI is undertaking partnership with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Uniting Church in Australia.
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