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CWS Board of Directors sign Ecumenical Covenant
Betty Voskuil and Rev. John L. McCullough signing the Ecumenical Covenant.
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At the recent October meeting of the Board of Directors of Church World Service, communions joined with the agency in signing an Ecumenical Covenant, the first such formal partnership in the agency's sixty-year history. Noting the past eight years of the agency's operating as a separate sister agency with the National Council of Churches of the USA, CWS Planning Committee Chair Susan Sanders (United Church of Christ), said, "These eight years of walking with one another gave opportunities to talk, listen and reflect. It has lead to a mutual covenant to be in mission together and to share the love of Christ.
"Out of these opportunities for engagement has come the Ecumenical Covenant, which was confirmed at the Board's last meeting (March 2007) and commended for adoption."
CWS Board Chair Betty Voskuil and CWS Executive Director and CEO John L. McCullough signed those covenants received from communions, and called on all present to celebrate the covenant through the symbolic ritual of signing a modified version as a pledge to serve in covenant together. The assembled group recited together the Covenant's closing paragraph:
"Together, relying on God's grace and generosity, celebrating the gifts of our global partners, we commit ourselves to living into the unity of the church, which is Christ's prayer for the sake of fulfilling God’s mission in the world."
Church World Service is the relief, development and refugee assistance agency of 35 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican communions, operating in 80 countries around the world to eradicate hunger and poverty and promote peace and justice.
Media Contact:
Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
Jan Dragin, 781-925-1526;
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