In recent years CCA’s membership has been expanded with new members from former closed-door countries as well as communist countries. Churches and ecumenical councils from these countries are new to the ecumenical movement and to CCA. These churches and councils lack ecumenical leadership and ecumenical theological education as many of the church leaders are providing pastoral care and assistance without formal theological education as they do not have access to the theological education. This makes them vulnerable to be targets of “aggressive evangelism” promoted by freelance missionary evangelists from outside their countries with emphasis given to them with an individualistic and anthropocentric understanding of “making disciples”, which is considered as their exclusive responsibility.

In this background, CCA needs to play a proactive role in developing an ecumenical leadership in these countries and equip the pastors, church leaders, women and youth with a holistic sense of ministry with the perspective of ecumenism and with Asian contextual theologizing.  In this context CCA will be implementing several activities in coming years with the partnership and collaboration of its member churches and council and regional ecumenical bodies, to accompany new and developing churches in Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor and where there is a need, in theological education and ecumenical formation. Activities will include national level ecumenical formation leadership development programs for youth and women; non-formal theological education programs for pastors and church leaders  facilitated through other ecumenical theological training centers and Scholarships, internships and exchange programs to be arranged and facilitated through other ecumenical learning centers.