Meseret Kristos Church Development Commission(MKC-DC) Profile
1. Introduction Meseret Kristos Church Development Commission is the development wing of Meserete Kristos Church, which is affiliated with Mennonite Mission. Currently, Meseret Kristos church has 352 local churches, 769 church planting centres and a total of about 269 thousand members all over the country. All these evangelism centres are administered by 19 regional offices and a central office located in Addis Ababa. The church performs its service under the overall guiding principle of “serving the whole person”. Since its establishment in 1951 as a church, it has been reaching the poor in fulfilling their spiritual, physical, social, intellectual and psychological needs. After long years of interruption during the Derg regime, in 1990 the church was given legal status and openly started its ministry where the Relief and Development Program (RDP) became an integral part. RDP from 1991 to June 1998 focused on church-based development programs where the emphasis was to empow