This is the text of the remarks from the Rt. Rev. Dr. David Githii, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) to the 27th General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, June 20-23, 2007.

I bring to you greeting and best wishes from your brothers and sisters of the Fraternity of the Presbyterian church of East Africa. (P.C.E.A.). Your General Assembly meeting held in Denver, reminds me of the first ever held general assembly (Jerusalem council) in AD 49, that had assembled to deal with a question, are we to accept them? whereby the Bible puts it “The apostles and elders met to consider this question.” This was after Paul had made converts among the Gentiles, people who had come to know the Truth, people who wanted to live in the totality of the scriptures and now they wanted to join the New Testament church, the church of the Apostles. “So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question” (Acts 15:2). Of course you know the rest of the story but the good news is that, the New Testament Church did accept and welcomed the new brothers and sisters.

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