The Christian Reformed Church in Myanmar is a

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church of Myanmar, and was founded in 1985 by Pastor Chan Thleng who was formerly ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Myanmar. He belongs to the

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tribe in Southern Chin State born in 1954, becoming Christian in 1974. In 1985 he founded the United Christian Church after he graduated from

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. He returned to Burma and changed the denomination's name to the Christian Reformed Church. It has 52 congregations and 13 preaching points with more than 6,000 members. The church is divided into 10 classes. Most of the evangelists work among Buddhist and Animist people. The Church recognizes the

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and the Ecumenical Creeds. To train pastors the church founded the Reformed Theological seminary in

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in 1997. The college offers a degree of Bachelor of Theology. The Christian Reformed Church maintains a clinic opened in 1999 in Matupi. It belonged to the

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, the only Burmese denomination to do so. But REC merged with the

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, now the Christian Reformed Church is affiliated with the

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. The denomination held its 26th General assembly on March 17–20, 2011. It entered into official ecclesiastical fellowship with the

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in 2011. The church is a member of the Reformed and Presbyterian Church Fellowship in Myanmar along with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Myanmar, the United Reformed Church in Myanmar, the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Myanmar, the Reformed Community Churches in Myanmar,

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, the Biblical Presbyterian Church in Myanmar and the Reformed Baptist Church in Myanmar.

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External links

Facebook page of the denomination
Presbyterian denominations in Asia Reformed denominations in Asia Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches