This is a history of the Muria Christian Churches of Indonesia (GKMI), one of the three Mennonite-related synods of churches in that fourth most populous nation in the world. This church developed from the initiative of a Chinese Indonesian businessman by the name of Tee Siem Tat, who seeking someone to baptize him and his newly believing associates, found Russian Mennonite missionaries of the Dutch Mennonite Mission working in the region who agreed to baptize them. The first baptisms occurred in December 1920. The church was organized and registered with the government by 1926. After forty years as an almost exclusively Chinese Indonesian church, they called a Javanese minister from the neighboring Javanese Mennonite Church (GITJ) and soon began to share their faith with Javanese people and eventually people of other ethnic groups as well. The church now has congregations in Central, West and East Java, Bali, northern and southern Sumatra, Kalimantan (Borneo) and several smaller islands.
- ISBN10 1894710606
- ISBN13 9781894710602
- Publish Date 10 January 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pandora Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 386
- Language English