(NCC News) Media advisory - Ecumenical event in July promises national snapshot
New York City, June 20, 2007--Nearly 400 Christians will travel next month to Oberlin College in Ohio to take stock of the Christian ecumenical movement in North America.
Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, Anglican, and many others will gather for "On Being Christian Together," the 50th anniversary of the first meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. That first event was also held at Oberlin College.
Theologians and religious leaders will assess the previous 50 years of the ecumenical movement in the United States as they think strategically about the future of ecumenism in the 21st century along. Participating in the discussion will be nearly 100 young theology students who will attend this historic event.
The event takes place July 19-23, 2007. A full program may be found at http://www.ncccusa.org/faithandorder/oberlin2007/program.html and a list of participating organizations and denominations appears below.
News media wishing to cover this event must apply for credentials. The form also appears below.
The NCC is the ecumenical voice of 35 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, historic African American and traditional peace churches. These NCC member communions have 44 million faithful members in 105,000 congregations in all 50 states.
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Churches and other sending bodies:
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Alliance of Baptists, American Baptist Churches in the USA, American Bible Society, Armenian Orthodox Church, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; and
Christian Reformed Church, Church of God - Anderson, Church of God in Christ, Church of the Brethren, Churches of Christ, Community of Christ, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Coptic Orthodox Church in America, Council of Churches within the Unitarian Universalist Association, Ecumenical Networks Standing Committee of the NCCCUSA, Emergent Village, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Friends International, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; and
Friends General Conference, Friends United Meeting, Fund for Theological Education, Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, Greek Orthodox Church, Hispanic Theological Initiative, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, International Council of Community Churches, International Evangelical Church, International Pentecostal Holiness Church Lutheran Church ? Missouri Synod, Mennonite Church USA, Moravian Church-Northern Province, Orthodox Church in America, Patriarch Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA; and
Presbyterian Church (USA), Progressive National Baptist Convention, Reformed Church in America, Religious Communities within the Roman Catholic Church, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Society for Pentecostal Studies, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Wesleyan Theological Society
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