A Christian youth conference under the motto “Victors with Christ till the Victory” was held in Quinchia, a town and municipality in the Department of Risaralda, Colombia, from June 21 to July 4, 2024, Pastor Woonsan Kang, Director of the GC Youth Department at the IMS, announced on September 9, quoted by the Secretarial Department at the IMS on Thursday, September 26, 2024. More than 300 young people took part in the event.

Quinchia was elevated to a city on November 29, 1888, while on April 24, 1912, the town was declared a municipality. Today, Quinchia, located in the Colombian coffee growing axis, part of the "Coffee Cultural Landscape" UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, has a population of more than 28 000 inhabitants.

A part of the participants in the Christian youth conference in Quinchia, Colombia; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Woonsan Kang.

Written by Margarit Zhekov