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The committee’s
purpose includes:
- giving a high profile to the vision
of the ecumenical involvement and work as central to the gospel
and key to the life of the church,
- planning and coordinating, in consultation
with the agencies and governing bodies of the church, the
involvement of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in ecumenical
relations and work,
- connecting the ecumenical efforts
of all governing body levels of the church,
- providing a common point for all
ecumenical efforts to connect us with those outside the PC(USA),
- keeping a unity of vision that includes
the ecclesiastical, programmatic, ecumenical, and denominational
(organizational) parts of our ministries and commitments,
- articulating the Reformed and Presbyterian
identity in the midst of our ecumenical commitments
- promoting awareness of the role
of the unity of all humankind in the search for the unity
of the church, and
- promoting the unity of the church
as an exhibition of the kingdom of God to the world.
Proposed policy on the ecumenical stance of the PC(USA) is among GACER recommendations to the 218th GA
In September 2007, more than 50 people gathered to seek a fresh approach to ecumenical ministries of the PC(USA). As a result of the gathering, the first of its kind in over a decade, the GACER is asking the 218th General Assembly (2008) to adopt as policy "The Ecumenical Stance of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)."
Read the proposed policy in its entirety.
An additional proposal to the 218th General Assembly (2008) from the GACER includes a "Covenant Relationship Between the Korean Presbyterian Church of America and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)."
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