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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"translation-block\">The GKIP Synod was founded by the GKIP Church (Fuk Im Thong), which was officially established on February<\/p><p>It began with the initiative and vision of an evangelist from China named Fang Han Min, who felt called to establish a new congregation of the Lord in the city of Palembang, which was named Fuk Jim Thong Church (old spelling). <strong>yang diberi nama <\/strong><strong>Gereja Fuk Jim Thong<\/strong> (*<em>ejaan lama<\/em>).<\/p><p>In its early days, the church was granted permission to use a place of worship by the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia (GpdI), located on Jl. Segaran.  It wasn\u2019t until 1961 that land was finally bought on Jl. Semeru 548 \u2013 Palembang, which remains the location of the GKIP church to this day.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b678eee elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b678eee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01B.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1646\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01B.jpg 554w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01B-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01B-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76588b6e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76588b6e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The church, initially known as Fuk Im Thong, later became known as the Evangelical Christian Church of Fuk Im Thong Palembang, which was originally a legal entity under the name Evangelical Christian Church Foundation (Fuk Im Thong) Palembang.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><p>However, due to changes in government regulations requiring churches to no longer operate as foundations but instead be registered with the Department of Religious Affairs<\/p><p>a legal amendment was made through Notarial Deed No. 24 dated August 8, 1988, which stated a change in the church\u2019s name from Evangelical Christian Church Foundation (Fuk Im Thong) to Evangelical Christian Church of Palembang.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>In the same year, the church received Decree No. 182 of 1988 from the Director General of Christian Community Guidance under the Department of Religious Affairs, recognizing the registration of the Evangelical Christian Church of Palembang.\u00a0<\/p><p>Thus, the Synod of the Evangelical Christian Church of Palembang (GKIP) was established, initially consisting of just one local church.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-815d3de elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"815d3de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-1024x852.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1890\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-1024x852.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-14x12.jpg 14w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A-600x499.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/001A.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48bb168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48bb168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 2018, five churches entered into a ministry partnership with the Fuk Im Thong Church to jointly oversee the Synod of GKIP, in order to meet their shared need for synodal covering.<\/p><p>These five churches are located in five cities across Indonesia: Medan (North Sumatera), Palembang (South Sumatera), Jakarta, Ambon (Maluku), and Kupang (East Nusa Tenggara).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home About Us Statement of Faith Sermon Logout Login Facebook Instagram Youtube English English Facebook Instagram Youtube Sejarah singkat Sinode GKIP Sinode GKIP didirikan oleh Gereja GKIP (Fuk Im Thong) yang berdiri tepat pada tanggal 2 Februari 1958. Diawali dengan inisiatif dan gagasan dari seorang penginjil dari Tiongkok bernama Fang Han Min, yang terpanggil ingin [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinodegkip.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}