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Ecumenical and Interfaith

The Conference Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns is committed to seeing that our relationships with other churches and other faiths reflect God’s love that embraces All people into knowing themselves as a household at God’s table.  Dr. Martin Luther King drew on the Biblical Greek word oikos, meaning “house,” to say. “We have inherited a big house, a great world house[oikoumene] in which we have to live together- black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated . . . in ideas, culture, and interests who . . . must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other. This means that more and more our loyalties must become ecumenical [oikoumene].” 

Our website http://www.gbgm-umc.org/interrelig lists current ecumenical and interfaith events. It links to the ongoing issues of Christian unity with sister Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant judicatories, including full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.  Interreligious and cultural issues such as peace, sacred texts, beliefs and practices, and areas of tension and agreement, unity and diversity are explored here.

YOUNG ADULTS - APPLY TO BE A STEWARD at the NCC Annual General Assembly November 9-11, 2010 New Orleans
The Young Adult Stewards Program offers a unique opportunity for young adults, ages 18-30, to encounter one aspect of the ecumenical movement from the inside. Ecumenical formation involves learning ecumenical theology and sharing the excitement and joy of worship and fellowship with others in the ecumenical movement. National Council of Churches and CWS invites stewards to the General Assembly to serve in the background and to observe up close the deliberative work of ecumenism.   2010 stewards application.pdf   Deadline September 10
World Methodist Council HAITI appeal  1st Friday Special Edition pdf
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Event: Bishop's Interfaith Bus Tour

April 16, 2010 - April 18, 2010
05:00 PM 
The tour visited Jewish, Jain, Buddhist, Baha'i, Hindu, and Muslim houses of worship, as well as  Grace UMC for Sunday morning worship.  

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General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns

Chairperson - NIC Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns
Amos Oladipo
773-561-6422
oladipoamos@yahoo.com  

NIC Ecumenical/Interreligious Officer
Edgar Hiestand
708-660-9168
ehiest@mc.net                                     


  
  


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