CHURCH VISIT TO INDONESIA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 3

CHURCH VISIT TO INDONESIA

National Council Group A 10-member party from the National Council of Churches will spend a month in Indonesia next year, visiting churches in Java and the outlying islands. As guests of the Indonesian Council of Churches, members of the party will convey greetings from New Zealand churches. The party’s visit will begin in midApril. “It is particularly encouraging to us that we have been able to fulfil the request of the Indonesian Council of Churches, namely, that there should be a number of Maori members in the party,” said the general secretary of the National Council (The Rev. A. A. Brash). There are four Maori members in the group.

“We are also pleased that the group represents four New Zealand communions and contains many people who will be able to give a good account of their impressions when they return,” he said.

The members of the party are:—The Rev. J. S. Murray, Presbyterian overseas missions secretary; Mr H. W. Reed, Salvation Army layman; Miss E Robertson, Church of England college principal; the Rev. Rang) Rogers, a Methodist Maori minister; the Rev. Canon D. Kaa and Mrs Kaa, Church of England Maori priest and his wife; Miss P. Ormsby, Maori secretary ot Presbyterian public questions committee: Mr J. Davis. Methodist layman; the Rev. K. Cree. Presbyterian minister; the Rev. A. J. Johnston, Methodist minister.