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The origins of the Church for the Propagation of the Gospel (GKPI) can be traced back to the split of its members from the American-inspired \"Church of the Gospel Tent\" in 1959. These believed that the Christian faith is holistic, encompasses all aspects of life and includes social justice. <\/span>The relationship with Mission 21 began in 1964 (at that time with the Basel Mission). The partnership supports GKPI in its quest for independence.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The GKPI works in an area that is larger than Switzerland but has a population of only around 200,000. They<\/span>\u00a0is predominantly made up of members of the ethnic group of the\u00a0<\/span>Dayak<\/span>\u00a0together. Most of the approximately 20,000 church members live in rural areas and have a very modest income.\u00a0<\/span>Its parishes are located along the Sesayap, Sembakung and Sebuku rivers in the north of East Kalimantan province and in the Kerayan highlands and are\u00a0<\/span>sometimes only accessible by boat and small aircraft. They are looked after by over 50 pastors. The employees of the church only receive a low wage and cultivate their own fields for self-sufficiency.\u00a0<\/span>Mission 21 finances part of the church's administrative and wage costs.<\/span>\u00a0With its holistic approach, the GKPI supports the population in the areas of education, health and agriculture in addition to pastoral care,\u00a0<\/span>Livelihood security<\/span> and women's empowerment. With the support of Mission 21, projects such as income generation for women, training scholarships for young people affected by poverty from remote villages, awareness-raising on the topic of violence in partnerships and organizational development are made possible.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":920,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"land":[64,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-851","1":"partner","2":"type-partner","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"land-asien","7":"land-indonesien"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/partner"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19400,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/851\/revisions\/19400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"land","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/land?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}