{"id":6665,"date":"2017-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/first-mennonite-brethren-serves-in-drc-government\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:40:00","slug":"first-mennonite-brethren-serves-drc-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/first-mennonite-brethren-serves-drc-government\/","title":{"rendered":"First Mennonite Brethren serves in DRC government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsboro, Kan., USA \u2013 Maleghi Lumeya has recently been appointed <em>Ministre des affaires fonci\u00e8res<\/em> (minister of land [property]) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumeya, who has served as a national congressman, is the first Mennonite Brethren to serve at this level of government in DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing in the political arena is like being a Good Samaritan,\u201d says Lumeya, the son of a Mennonite Brethren pastor and an attorney by profession. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for the poor to see the hand of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nzash Lumeya, Maleghi\u2019s brother who lives in Fresno, Cal., asks Mennonites around the world to pray for Maleghi as he strives to influence the decisions being made in DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaleghi and his wife Lyly confess Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord,\u201d says Nzash. \u201cThey belong to the Mennonite Brethren church in Congo. Humility and wisdom are much needed as they serve \u2018as unto the Lord\u2019 in our beloved country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DR Congo is currently led by president Joseph Kabila, whose presidential term ended in 2016, but he continues to hold office. In April, Kabila appointed Bruno Tshibala, a former leading member of the main opposition coalition, as prime minister. A new transitional government, of which Maleghi Lumeya is a member, was sworn into office May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Nzash says Maleghi\u2019s political involvement is inspired by John Redekop, a Canadian Mennonite Brethren church leader, author and professor of political science at Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont., who also served as a city councillor in Abbotsford, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Maleghi attended Redekop\u2019s seminars on principles for political involvement in Kinshasa in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Nzash points to characters from the Bible like Joseph and Daniel who played a prophetic role in government. \u201cCongo is a place where God\u2019s name can be made known,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014A Mennonite World Conference release by Connie Faber, originally published in the <\/em>Christian Leader<em>, the magazine of the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwc-cmm.org\/article\/shou-wei-zai-gang-guo-min-zhu-gong-he-guo-zheng-fu-ren-zhi-men-nuo-di-xiong-hui-hui-you\"><span>???????<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsboro, Kan., USA \u2013 Maleghi Lumeya has recently been appointed Ministre des affaires fonci\u00e8res (minister of land [property]) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumeya, who has served as a national congressman, is the first Mennonite Brethren to serve at this level of government in DR Congo. \u201cServing in the political arena is like being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"network":[],"eventcategory":[],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Mennonite Brethren serves in DRC government - Mennonite World Conference<\/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:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/first-mennonite-brethren-serves-drc-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Mennonite Brethren serves in DRC government - Mennonite World Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hillsboro, Kan., USA \u2013 Maleghi Lumeya has recently been appointed Ministre des affaires fonci\u00e8res (minister of land [property]) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 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