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| Mission co-worker in Brazil says we
forgot one important Brazilian Presbyterian Church
4/7/01 [published here on 4-11-01]
Dear Doug King,
I am, most of the time, a delighted member of the Witherspoon Society
and reader of Network News. Thank you for what you are doing.
I am also a Mission Co-Worker in Brazil, assigned to the Independent
Presbyterian Church in the area of theological education.
In "How
Do We Listen to Overseas Churches?" by Gene TeSelle,
on p.9 of the Winter 2001 edition, newly arrived at my home by snailmail,
two
Brazilian Presbyterian Churches are mentioned but my Brazilian
church is not. Gene characterizes the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPB)
in a way that seems basically unobjectionable (although the IPB is big
enough that generalizations about it cannot be totally fair), and
correctly characterizes the United Presbyterian Church of Brazil as
having been organized by those who were expelled from the IPB. Gene
correctly notes that the IPU is in communion with the PCUSA and that the
IPB is not. The reader might conclude that the IPU is the PCUSA's only
partner in Brazil, which is not the case.
The Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPI) is also a partner,
and is my Brazilian church. The IPI was born on July 31, 1903, when a
group of Brazilian Presbyterian leaders separated themselves from the
North American missionaries and made a go of it themselves; in the
1970's and 1980's there was a renewal of relationship.
The misleading impression given was certainly not
intentional. And I can think of the perfect penance! Sometime soon,
perhaps in July, the Missao Presbiteriana do Brasil, a joint organ of
the PCUSA, IPI and IPU, will hold a mission consultation. Find out about
it and give it some coverage!
Thank you,
Archibald M. Woodruff, Mission Co-Worker, Brazil
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