WCC NEWS: Apply now: Stewards Programme 2011

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Date Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:46:07 +0200

>World Council of Churches - News

>APPLY NOW: STEWARDS PROGRAMME 2011

>For immediate release: 18 August 2010

Young Christians from around the world are invited to apply to the 
World
Council of Churches (WCC) stewards programme for one of two hands-on
learning experiences at major ecumenical meetings in 2011, the WCC 
Central
Committee meeting, 8-24 February, and the International Ecumenical 
Peace
Convocation, 12-26 May. Applicants must be between the age of 18-30
years.

During the meetings stewards will work in the areas of worship, 
conference
room, documentation, press office, sound, and other administrative and
support tasks.

The WCC Central Committee  (Link:

http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=22264c6d701d609c0dfb ) meets 
every 18 months in
Geneva, Switzerland to monitor and set directions to the Council's 
work.
The meeting brings together about 150 church representatives, 
advisers and
observers from WCC member churches and associated organizations 
worldwide.
Twenty stewards will help to make this event happen.

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=e74ee47f336fc102190d ) will 
gather some 1000
participants from all over the world in Kingston, Jamaica. 
Participants of
many different backgrounds will witness to the peace of God as both 
gift
and responsibility of the entire human family. The IEPC stewards 
programme
will have 45 participants, with one third of them coming from Jamaica 
and
the Caribbean.

Before the meetings, stewards follow an ecumenical learning programme 
which
exposes them to the key issues of the ecumenical movement worldwide. 
The
last phase of the stewards programme, following the meeting, focuses 
on
designing ecumenical projects which stewards will implement back home.

Being a steward means hard work, but it is also a unique ecumenical
experience of togetherness with young people from different churches,
countries and cultures.

Applicants are invited to send in the application form:
* by 30 September 2010 for the Central Committee
* by 30 November 2010 for the IEPC

More information on the WCC stewards programme (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=26c38a9411e394a00470 )

Download the information brochure (pdf, 275 KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=58099183576ee9b93cfb
)

Download the application form as pdf (60 KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=8da53d1dfcf8b46526c4
) or as MS Word document (263 KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=f3461190ab715be36d48
)

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, 
witness 
and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship 
of 
churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 
Protestant, 
Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 
million 
Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the 
Roman 
Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse 
Tveit, 
from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, 
Switzerland.

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