http://www.nccouncilofchurches.org/about/members

The North Carolina Council of Churches is comprised of 26 distinct judicatories from 17 denominations.  Across the state, our members have over 6,200 congregations with about 1.5 million congregants.

 

http://www.nccouncilofchurches.org/programs/christian-unity

Christian Unity Committee of the North Carolina Council of Churches is devoted to the ecumenical task. While Christian unity is modeled and promoted through all of the Council's work, the Christian Unity Committee is the one body whose primary responsibility is to further Christian unity and wholeness. This includes bringing people together across lines of denominations in order to realize that we are more alike than different and that we can be enriched by many of our differences. This website contains a few of the Council’s resources on ecumenism and Christian unity, including the work “A Reflection on the Churches’ Doctrine of Humanity.”

 

http://www.nccouncilofchurches.org/2010/01/2010-ecumenical-prayer-calendar

The most recent edition of the North Carolina Council of Churches ecumenical prayer calendar can be downloaded here.  This Prayer for Unity and monthly prayer calendar include by name the judicatories and congregations that are members of the North Carolina Council of Churches and the names of their current leaders. Your prayers for reconciliation are invited for all Christian bodies in and beyond the state.

 

http://www.oikoumene.org

World Council of Churches is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity. The WCC brings together more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world, representing some 550 million Christians and including 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; and foster renewal in unity, worship, mission, and service.

 

http://www.ncccusa.org

National Council of Churches USA represents the leading force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States. The NCC's 36 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and Living Peace member faith groups include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations in communities across the nation. As they gather in the Council, member communions grow in understanding of each other's traditions. They work to identify and fully claim those areas of belief they hold in common; they celebrate the diverse and unique gifts that each church brings to ecumenical life; and together they study those issues that divide the churches. And they cooperate in many joint programs of education, advocacy, and service that address critically important needs and that witness to a common faith in Jesus Christ.

 

http://www.geii.org/wpcu_index.htm

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been celebrated around the world for nearly a hundred years. A complete version of the annual brochure jointly edited, jointly published and printed, and distributed by Faith and Order (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Catholic Church) is available online from the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute. The brochure includes the outline of an ecumenical worship service, an introduction to the theme for the week, a description of the ecumenical situation in the region from which the original source material comes, and eight sets of daily Bible readings and meditations.  Traditionally, the week is observed from January 18-25 in the northern hemisphere but in other parts of the world it is observed around Pentecost. The resources are offered in the hope that they will be appropriately modified to suit particular local situations and that they will continue to be used throughout the year.

 

http://www.cuicinfo.org

Churches Uniting in Christ is an ecumenical movement among major American denominations.

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 (CUIC). 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. CUIC is not a new structure; rather, it is an officially recognized invitation to live with one another differently. Christians in the pews know that we belong together because we all belong to the same Lord. CUIC is a framework for showing to the world what we truly are – the one Body of Jesus Christ.