Christian Church of Sumba is Calvinist church in Indonesia, a member of World Communion of Reformed Churches. The denomination was established on 15 January 1947. Today, the church has congregations in various cities outside the island of

Sumba Sumba ( id, Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as a ...

. :id:Gereja Kristen Sumba There are churches in

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, Rote-Ndao, Kupang, Timor,

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, Java,

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. It has 550,000 members, the majority of the

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population in

in 2004. The church has been growing steadily.www.pcimissionoverseas.org/partners/item/12/christian-church-of-sumba-gks/
/ref> In 2012, the church had approximately 600,000 members and 712 congregations. In 1907, Dutch Reformed started the mission in Sumba and they founded a number of congregations. By the 1940s, there were 5,000 Christians in Sumba. The official founding date is 1947. The church adheres to the

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