{"id":20563,"date":"2014-12-21T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:06:44","slug":"africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo","status":"publish","type":"partner","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciples of Christ Church of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Disciples of Christ of the Congo (EDCC) in the Republic of Congo, is a relatively new church founded in 1995.&nbsp; Global Ministries has been a key supporter since the beginning of the church.&nbsp; Global Ministries funded a missionary from the Community of the Disciples of Christ in Congo (CDCC) in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo to the&nbsp; newly forming EDCC from 1995 to 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Congo has made great strides in recovering economically from its 1997 war.&nbsp; The opportunity for religious freedom, after many years in which the government discouraged worship, has caused significant growth in the number of people interested in religious practice.&nbsp; The church is relatively small with about 2,000 members in the country but is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","region":[20007,20092],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Disciples of Christ Church of the Congo - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disciples of Christ Church of the Congo - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Church of the Disciples of Christ of the Congo (EDCC) in the Republic of Congo, is a relatively new church founded in 1995.&nbsp; Global Ministries has been a key supporter since the beginning of the church.&nbsp; Global Ministries funded &hellip; Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-27T13:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/\",\"name\":\"Disciples of Christ Church of the Congo - Global Ministries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-22T00:05:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-27T13:06:44+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_disciples_of_christ_congo\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Partners\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partners\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Disciples of Christ Church of the Congo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\",\"name\":\"Global Ministries\",\"description\":\"Global Ministries is a common missional witness of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. 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