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Remembering the 19

WCC General Secretary Emilio Castro ( centre ) embraces Bishop K . H . TING ( CCC ), left , and Rev . C . M . KAO ( PCT ), right , after the CCC ' s WCC membership was announced .

Facebook recently reminded me of this photograph . Despite its having been posted as long ago as 2016 , a World Council of Churches blog post which used the photo can still be read at A sobering retrospective of the Canberra Assembly 25 years ago | World Council of Churches ( oikoumene . org ) .

How many of us remember our involvement in the 1991 WCC Assembly here in Canberra ? Many were in the Assembly choir . Some were on the organising committees .

How many of us remember when Emilio Castro came to our church and preached for us in 1989 when the Advance party for that Assembly visited Canberra to look at the locations and facilities that would be used ?

- Brian Rope

St Margaret ’ s News 14 February 2021