Emergency food assistance for North Korea

Programme Review and Programme Direction

Two key deliberative sessions during the 15th CCA General Assembly are the Programme Review and Programme Direction sessions.

The Programme Review and Programme Direction sessions will both be conducted in three groups relating to the CCA’s programme areas, namely, (i) General Secretariat (GS), (ii) Mission in Unity and Contextual Theology (MU) and Ecumenical Leadership Formation and Spirituality (EF); and (iii) Building Peace and Moving Beyond Conflicts (BP) and Prophetic Diakonia (PD).

Assembly participants will have the option to join one of three groups for both the Programme Review and Programme Direction sessions. For the sake of coherence, the assigned group will remain the same for both sessions.

General Secretariat

The General Secretariat oversees the coordination of programmatic, administrative, and financial activities of the organization. The GS comprises various departments such as church and ecumenical relations, relations with ecumenical partners, finance, administration, and communications, which provide crucial support and services for the implementation of programs and contribute to the overall functioning of the CCA.

Programmes: Relations with member churches and councils, ecumenical partners; advocacy at the United Nations; ecumenical responses to emerging issues in solidarity; income development and finance; and communications.

Mission in Unity and Contextual Theology (MU) and Ecumenical Leadership Formation and Spirituality (EF)

Under the MU programme area, the CCA accompanies Asian churches to strengthen their mission and witness in multi-religious contexts, revitalise and nurture church unity and the Asian ecumenical movement, and develop contextual theological foundations.

Programmes: Asian Movement for Christian Unity (AMCU); Congress of Asian Theologians (CATS); Asian women doing theology in the context of wider ecumenism; contextualisation of theology in Asia and ecumenical theological education.

The EF programme area focuses on nurturing and developing ecumenical leaders in Asia. The programme aims to enhance spiritual formation and theological understanding, enabling people to actively engage in ecumenical dialogue and collaboration.

Programmes: Ecumenical Enablers’ Training in Asia (EETA); Asian Ecumenical Institute (AEI); Youth and Women Leadership Development; Ecumenical Spirituality and Nurturing of Contextual Liturgical Traditions; Asia Sunday

Building Peace and Moving Beyond Conflicts (BP) and Prophetic Diakonia and Advocacy (PD)

The BP programme area is dedicated to promoting peace, justice, and reconciliation in Asia’s diverse contexts. Through training, advocacy, and dialogue, the programme addresses the root causes of conflicts, empowers communities, and fosters sustainable peacebuilding initiatives.

Programmes: Pastoral Solidarity Visits; Churches in Action for Moving Beyond Conflict and Resolution; Young Ambassadors of Peace in Asia (YAPA); Ecumenical Women’s Action Against Violence (EWAAV); Eco-Justice for Sustainable Peace in the Oikos.

The PD programme area focuses on promoting justice, human rights, and social transformation in Asia. Through advocacy, capacity-building, and raising awareness, the programme addresses systemic injustice, empowers marginalised communities, and advocates for prophetic actions and meaningful change.

Programmes: Human Rights advocacy; Migration, Statelessness, and Trafficking in Persons; Asian Ecumenical Disability Advocacy Network; Asian Advocacy Network on the Dignity and Rights of Children (AANDRoC); Ecumenical Solidarity Accompaniment and Diakonia in Asia (ESADA); Health and Healing; Good Governance; Action Together to Combat HIV and AIDS in Asia (ATCHAA).

No preference updated.

24 July 2011
christian conference of Asia, Asia christianity

22 July, 2011

Dear CCA Officers, Member Churches and Councils:

At a meeting of the Ecumenical Forum  for Korea (EFK) in Nanjing, China on 16th and 17th June 2011, a second shipment of 480 tons  of flour for distribution to children in nurseries and kindergartens in North Korea was discussed and acted upon.  This flour shipment follows the first shipment of 120  tons of flour which was transported to Pyongyang with the help of the Amity Foundation in China.

These flour shipments represent a continuing concern and response by the Korean churches in the South to the chronic food crisis suffered by North Koreans.  This humanitarian aid will also help improve the present impasse on the Korean peninsula.

At the EFK meeting, pledges have already  been received from the United Church of Canada and the Methodist Church in Britain.  The Korean churches will be raising the remaining amount necessary to procure the flour and to meet transport costs through the National Council of Churches in Korea.  It is for this reason that the NCCK issued an appeal to CCA to help mobilize resources and raise funds from the Asian churches to extend assistance to people in dire food situation in North Korea.

CCA’s Charlie Ocampo, Executive Secretary  for Justice, International Affairs, Development and Service represents us in the EFK.

Attached is the letter of request issued by the Rev. Kim, Young Ju, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea.

We offer prayers to our sisters and brothers in North Korea but we would also like to extend our generosity by helping raise funds for the food shipment through the NCCK.

Yours sincerely,

Henriette Hutabarat Lebang
General Secretary CCA