Positive Tipping Points for Social Justice: GRAPE Cohort Training
In Cape Town, South Africa, the 3rd and 4th cohorts of the Global Reformed Advocacy Platforms for Engagement (GRAPE) gathered for the annual in-person training workshop. Held from April 20 to 24, this intensive workshop equips participants with tools to drive social change and amplify justice-driven advocacy within the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) […]
Historic launch of the South African GRAPE platform in Cape Town
“As it is widely known that South Africa is the country with the widest gap between the rich and the poor it is time that a Basic Income Grant is introduced in South Africa so that we try to narrow the gap between the poor and the rich.” These are the words of Professor Leepo […]
GRAPE pilot project launched in Africa
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) launched its new Global Reformed Advocacy Platforms for Engagement (GRAPE) project in July with African church leaders. The GRAPE project promotes, supports, and accompanies the advocacy work of WCRC member churches, amplifying the voices of local people in the struggles in which they engage and connecting them to […]
WCRC partners on critical advocacy issues
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) has joined with ecumenical partners and its regions to call for justice in several critical areas: global sovereign debt relief, political reform in Peru, and the protection of freedom of religion and belief in Indonesia. Sovereign debt relief In a letter to leaders of the Group of Twenty […]
Mission in Context: From “witness” to “with-ness”
A group of twenty-six church leaders, theologians, and activists have called for a prophetic theology which reflects God’s concern for compassionate justice. They gathered at the Beit El Salam Retreat Centre (Alexandria, Egypt) to share their experiences, deliberate and discuss the missiological question: How can Christian witness and peaceful co-existence be initiated and maintained in […]
Council challenged to practice a costly discipleship
by Hui Jun Chia “Are we facing forces which constitute a spiritual assault on the integrity and truth of Christian faith in today’s world?” This rhetorical question was posed by former General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America Rev. Dr. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson in his theme address on “Mission in Communion” at the 2017 WCRC […]
Welcome into your home
We join with our member churches to oppose the recent Executive Order issued by President Trump and call for members of the Communion to join in prayer and action.
Greek evangelicals welcome refugees
It began with simple acts of hospitality and has since become a life-changing mission. The arrival of thousands upon thousands of Middle Eastern refugees more than a year ago shocked members of the Greek Evangelical Church (GEC) into action. Already assisting fellow Greeks who were struggling through tough economic times, the GEC members couldn’t ignore […]
WCRC Europe task force addresses migration issues
The unprecedented flood of refugees into Europe prompted the Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Europe (WCRC Europe) to create a “Task Force on Migration and Refugee” to explore appropriate responses to the crisis. These responses include deepening theological reflections on migration, engaging in a dialogue about Christian-Muslim relations, partnering with Middle […]
Reformed-Pentecostal dialogue focuses on mission and salvation
The second round of meetings in the Reformed-Pentecostal Dialogue took place in December at the St. Paul Cultural Center in Antalya, Turkey, under the theme “Ministering to the Needs of the World: Mission and Salvation.” “Folks from Reformed and Pentecostal churches relate to each other in a variety of contexts around the world. Those interactions […]
