WCC NEWS: Apply now: Stewards Programme 2012

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APPLY NOW: STEWARDS PROGRAMME 2012

For immediate release: 17 January 2012

Young Christians from around the world are invited to apply to the WCC
Stewards Programme for a hands-on learning experience at the WCC Central
Committee meeting, 23 August – 7 September 2012, in Crete, Greece.
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 Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=3e45e09b5658d3c27234 ) meets every 18 
months 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-five stewards will
help to make this event happen.

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 completed application form to the WCC
youth desk no later than 15 March 2012.

More information on the WCC stewards programme (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=e9b4ef2f38d10aabdd7f )

Download the information brochure (pdf, 400  KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=58776617872c34c91eb9
)

Download the application form as pdf (150 KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=c130eed34cc722e7a2d9
) or as MS Word document (80 KB) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=50528c292a9f84c4fe2b
)


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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