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LIGHT OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH AFFILIATIONS

The Radiant Light Spiritual Center is an Auxiliary Center to the Light of Christ Community Church.

International Council of Community Churches International Council of Community Churches

In the United States:
   200,000 Members
   180 Congregations


The International Council of Community Churches (ICCC) is an international, intercultural, interracial fellowship of churches and ministry centers that seeks to realize Christian unity in local, national, and world relations. The Council seeks fellowship, mutual support, and common ministries that reflect the unity of all who see themselves within the Christian tradition. In 1950, two fellowships in the Community Church movement joined in an historic merger. At the time, their joining represented the largest interracial merger of religious bodies in America. The new creation was the International Council of Community Churches. Member churches and centers are united to be a fellowship of ecumenically minded, free-loving churches cooperating in fulfilling the mission of the Church.

Churches Uniting in Christ

After forty years of study and prayer through the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), the nine member churches agreed to stop "consulting" and start living their unity in Christ more fully. On January 20, 2002, these churches inaugurated a new relationship to be known as Churches Uniting in Christ.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church

International Council of Community Churches

Presbyterian Church (USA)

United Church of Christ

United Methodist Church

Each communion retains its own identity and decision-making structures, but they also have pledged before God to draw closer in sacred things including regular sharing of the Lord’s Supper and common mission, especially a mission to combat racism together. Each church also committed itself to undertake an intensive dialogue toward the day when ministers are authorized to serve and lead worship, when invited, in each of the communions. Churches Uniting in Christ is not a new structure. It is an officially recognized invitation to live with one another differently.

National Council of the Churches of Christ National Council of the Churches of Christ

In the United States:
45 million members
100,000 congregations

Since its founding in 1950, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA has been the leading force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States. The NCC’s member faith groups representing a wide spectrum of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and Living Peace churches bring distinctive faith traditions to the Council’s common table. Protestant members include churches of British, German, Scandinavian and other European origin, historic African American churches, and immigrant churches from Korea and India. Orthodox member communions have roots in Greece, Syria, Russia, the Ukraine, Egypt, India and other places where Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy have long histories. Reflecting the rich variety of its members, the NCC believes that genuine unity demands inclusivity and a respect for diversity, and strives to embody this belief in its programs, decision-making and staffing.

The NCC office that deals with public policy issues, based in Washington D.C., makes a strong witness on the moral and ethical dimensions of public policy issues. Working from a policy base developed by the churches over many decades, the NCC makes the views of the ecumenical community known to government and keeps its constituents informed of legislative and other developments of interest to the churches.

The World Council The World Council of Churches of Churches

Around the globe:
550 million members
340 churches, denominations and church fellowships
over 100 countries and territories

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modem ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity. Representation is from some Christian and most of the world’s Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well
as many united and independent churches. While the bulk of the WCC’s founding churches were European and North American, today most are in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.

For its member churches, the WCC is a unique space: one in which they can reflect, speak, act, worship and work together, challenge and support each other, share and debate with each other. As members of this fellowship, WCC member churches:

are called to the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship

promote their common witness in work for mission and evangelism

engage in Christian service by serving human need, breaking down barriers between people

seeking justice and peace, and upholding the integrity of creation

foster renewal in unity, worship, mission and service.