June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

are definitely starting to open for them. The Missions director, Anthony Chaplog, has had
several meetings with the Kings and is very encouraged by what they have to offer.
Recently the director of Cape Bible Training Bible College, Marianne Coetzee, and I visited
with Dr. Jason Fawcett, of Hebron Theological College, close to Johannesburg, concerning our
being able to partner with their college. Since CBTC is not fully accredited, this would enable us
to have our Bible School students receive fully recognized credentials through Hebron. As
things stand at the moment, it looks like our students will need to do between 40% and 50% of
their classes through Hebron’s “Distance Learning” program (correspondence) in order for this
to work successfully for us.
AREA REPORTS - CENTRAL AFRICA
Malawi: Althea Meyer continues to be our only missionary in Malawi, and I cannot say enough
good things about her. Bishop Charles Mthunya, the National Overseer, Althea, and I were
able to meet with our lawyer in Lilongwe to update the trustees for the Pentecostal Holiness
Mission and the Pentecostal Holiness Church. This was last done in 1986. One of the issues
that has come up with the church leadership in Malawi has been our registration and the way in
which we were registered – “Pentecostal Holiness Church in Central Africa.” We are currently
looking into the requirements and the details needed to change our name to Pentecostal Holiness
Church in Malawi. So far, all we have been able to find out is that this is a very expensive
exercise and one that takes quite some time.
Kundael Mrema later joined us at a meeting with our four conference executive boards. There
was a lot of tension among the leaders, and it looked like a major split in the Church was
imminent. However, after a long twelve-hour meeting, the Holy Spirit gave us a major break-
Greeting General Conference Executive Board members before meeting
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