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142baptismal services, and wedding ceremonies.Each localcongregation is led by a head deacon. Some local congregations,which are large enough to support apastor of theirown, are led by an ordained pastor.There are no hard-andfnstrules determining the form of church government to befollowed in the congregations of the Kuki Christian Church.It depends on the needs of the people and the churches.Evangelism and Church PlantingEvangelists are employed in most of the pastorates.Evangelists work with pastors to carry out evangelisticcampaigns in the Kuki villages and churches.The duty ofthe evangelists is to pres~ntthe Gospel to the non-ChristianKuki sand "br in-g--th-em -to-Cnrist: -Wnen tnere are enoughKukis,who have become Christians in any given village toform a church, the evangelist informs the pastor of thepastorate and the pastorate makes arrangements to plant achurch in that village.Thus, evangelism and church plantinggo together.Both the pastor and the evangelist areaccountable to the executive secretary of the synod and arerequired to give a monthly report of their work to him.Normally, the pastor and the evangelist in eachpastorate organize agospel crusade in the pastorate atleast once a year. Most of the pastorates also hold anannual conference in which the main emphasis is on preachingthe Gospel to the unconverted and increasing the faith ofthose who are already Christians.The synods also hold annual preaching conferences