International Council
of Community Churches International Council of Community Churches
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.
National Council of
the Churches of Christ National Council of the Churches of Christ
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
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: