SENIOR NYOMI IS GENERAL SECRETARY OF WARC

Rev. Dr. Setri Nyomi (Serwah '72) becomes the first non-European to be installed as General Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) - the umbrella body which unites over 77 million Presbyterians, Reformed, Congregational and Waldensian churches all over the world. He heads that august body headquatered in Geneva, Switzerland.

In a cathedral bedecked with flowers in the national colours of Ghana, Setri Nyomi was introduced to a congregation representing the 215 member churches of the Alliance around the world by the outgoing general secretary, Prof. Milan Opocensky of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. Together with his wife, Akpene, Dr Nyomi was presented for installation by the moderators of two Ghanaian churches: Rt Rev. JY Ledo of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, and Rt Rev. Dr Sam Prempeh of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. In his exhortation to the new general secretary, the Alliance's president, Prof. CS Song of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, read a poem he had written specially for the occasion:

"For you, Setri Nyomi," he said, "this day is the future - a future that inspires you to dream new dreams in the midst of old..." [More about him coming soon]