Celebration of Ministry Recognizes a New Elder, Commissioned Clergy, and Local Pastors
As one of its first acts in its 187th session, the Northern Illinois Conference ordained an elder, commissioned two people for deacon's min…
The NIC Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Relationships (CCUIR - 2012 Discipline ¶ 642) 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].”
Contacts:
NIC CCUIR Chairperson: Rev. Lynn Pries Email
NIC Ecumenical/Interreligious Office Liaison: Rev. Catiana McKay Email
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