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SAO PAULO - Under the theme "The Kingdom of God and His Justice, our celebration and commitment" more than 40 young people from Latin America and the Caribbean will meet May 13 - 16 in the Methodist Youth Pre-Assembly. The meeting on the Taquaral Campus of the Methodist University of Piracicaba (Unimep) constitutes the pre-youth assembly prior to the VIII General Assembly of the Evangelical Methodist Churches of Latin America and the Caribbean Council (CIEMAL) that will meet on the same site from May 17-22. Young people from the World Committee of Methodist Youth (WMCYC), Methodists United to Represent the Cause of Hispanic Americans, (Marcha), the Methodist Church of the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA), the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) and the Student Christian Movement (FUMEC), have been invited to attend the pre-Assembly. Delegates will meet with the Executive Secretary for Youth from the Global Ministries Board of the United Methodist Church of the United States, Tamara Walker and with the executive secretary of CIEMAL, Aldo Etchegoyen. Methodist youth will address mission and will develop strategies, they will evaluate the social, political, economic, cultural and religious context of Latin America, to be presented by Anivaldo Padilha. He will talk about globalization and its effects on faith, economics and society. The Rev. Sergio Gama will focus on the Methodist identity and the legacy of Wesley and Pastor Paulo Garcia will address the issue "The Kingdom of God and His Justice, our faith and commitment." Young people will draft a continental and world action plan and a manifest that will be taken to the CIEMAL assembly. The manifest, said the continental coordinator of the Youth in Mission Program of CIEMAL, Joyce Torres Placa, will express their expectations and the mission of young people in the face of the challenges presented by society. It will constitute the voice of young people at the VIII CIEMAL assembly, she said. The new Youth Team will be elected at the pre-assembly
and will assume the coordination of the Youth in Missions Program
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