{"id":3951,"date":"2016-06-04T01:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/18th-general-assembly-of-mahibere-kidusan-american-branch-launched\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:35:30","slug":"18th-general-assembly-of-mahibere-kidusan-american-branch-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/18th-general-assembly-of-mahibere-kidusan-american-branch-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"18th General Assembly of Mahibere kidusan American Branch launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\">June 4, 2016<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\">By America Branch&nbsp;<\/span> <\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Mahibere kidusan (MK) America Branch under the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Sunday School department organized its 18th General Assembly from May 28-29, 2016 in Seattle, Washington DC. The event was attended by more than 400 members of MK, Sunday Sschool students, representatives and management bodies of DC, California and Western America diocese, and invited guests.&nbsp; <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><br \/> <\/span>  <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves\/> <w:TrackFormatting\/> <w:PunctuationKerning\/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF\/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US<\/w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE<\/w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE<\/w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables\/> <w:SnapToGridInCell\/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/> <w:DontGrowAutofit\/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark\/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp\/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables\/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx\/> <w:Word11KerningPairs\/> <w:CachedColBalance\/> <\/w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val=\"Cambria Math\"\/> <m:brkBin m:val=\"before\"\/> <m:brkBinSub m:val=\"--\"\/> <m:smallFrac m:val=\"off\"\/> <m:dispDef\/> <m:lMargin m:val=\"0\"\/> <m:rMargin m:val=\"0\"\/> <m:defJc m:val=\"centerGroup\"\/> <m:wrapIndent m:val=\"1440\"\/> <m:intLim m:val=\"subSup\"\/> <m:naryLim m:val=\"undOvr\"\/> <\/m:mathPr><\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; font-size: 12pt\">In his welcoming speech,&nbsp;Dr. Hilmneh Snishaw, <span>the head of MK American branch office,<\/span> highlighted the main activities carried out in the course of the budget year. Mel&rsquo;ake Selam Kesis Mesfin&nbsp;<span>Tegeng<\/span>, (Dr.), Secretary General of DC diocese, delivered a message on behalf of his grace Abune Fanuel. Father Dejenie Shiferaw, (Dr.), gave a sermon citing 1 Cor.&nbsp;9:16.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; font-size: 12pt\">Each department of the branch office presented their respective annual report and plan for the next budget year.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt\">Representative of Mahibere Kidusan head office, Like Tiguhan Kesis Mulugeta Seyoum, (Dr.), presented the report of the main office and responded to questions and ideas raised by the participants. He also elaborated on the activities of heretics in particular and the general current issues of the church in general.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt\">A film entitled, &ldquo;Zikre abew&rdquo; &ndash; reminiscing the lives of fathers&nbsp;&#8211; was&nbsp;shown&nbsp;to the audience as part of the 7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year commemoration of Like Gubae Abera Bekele, who contributed greatly for the expansion of MK services.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt\">In the course of the assembly held as part of the ceremony, 13 new management bodies were elected after prayer was held and lot was cast to lead for the next two years, following the end of&nbsp;the last two year term of the outgoing management.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt\">Finally, it was decided to hold the next 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;general assembly at Boston and Virginia, respectively. The assembly was closed in prayer and hymn of the church.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<i style=\"line-height: 25.6px; font-family: Nyala, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, 'Sans Serif'; text-align: -webkit-center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">(Translation &#8211; Kassa Nigus)<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\">June 4, 2016<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\">By America Branch&nbsp;<\/span> <\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Mahibere kidusan (MK) America Branch under the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Sunday School department organized its 18th General Assembly from May 28-29, 2016 in Seattle, Washington DC. 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