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World Council of Churches Bids Farewell to Outgoing Leader Kobia

GENEVA - Around 150 members of the World Council of Churchesâ€™ main decision-making body honored the nearly six-year tenure of outgoing general secretary Dr. Samuel Kobia with a farewell service Sunday.

The service, held in the WCC chapel in Geneva, took on a distinctly international flavor as hand drums accompanied African and African-American worship songs, and responses were sung by the congregation in the South American language of Guarani.

The main sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson of the United Church of Christ in the USA, who thanked Kobia for his â€œleadership as an unwavering witness for justice and peace in the world on behalf of the WCC.â€

â€œYour gift has been to give the courage to hope,â€ she said, quoting the title of Kobiaâ€™s report to the Central Committee last Wednesday, â€œCourage to hope.â€ ...

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9/1/09 2:32 PM

Jim Lincoln

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Too bad we can say farewell to the WCC! But of course it does encourage worse behavior.

Matthew 23
15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

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