Muria Christian Church in Indonesia
The church reports more than 16,000 members living in Java, Bali, Sumatra and Kalimantan.GKMI started as an indigenous Christian movement begun by a Chinese Indonesian couple by the name Tee Siem Tat and Sie Djoen Nio in the city of Kudus in north Central Java before 1920.By the 1940s a half dozen congregations had been formed incorporating also groups of Chinese Indonesian believers who had come to faith through the ministries of the Mennonite missionaries working mostly among the Javanese population in the area.The GKMI sprang up in Chinese Indonesian communities in the towns surrounding Mount Muria, an ancient volcano along the north coast of in Central Java.Since 1960 it has spread beyond the Muria area and into other ethnic groups on the four main islands of western Indonesia.