Reformed Ecumenical Council

Reformed Ecumenical Council

The Reformed Ecumenical Council is an international organization of Calvinist Churches. It has 39 member denominations from 25 countries in its membership, and those churches have about 12 million people together. It was founded in 1946 as the Reformed Ecumenical Synod. The Reformed Ecumenical Council is the second largest international Reformed alliance, the more conservative of the two largest. About two-thirds of its member churches also belong to the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. The seat of the Reformed Ecumenical Council is Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

After a two-day meeting ending on 1 February 2006, Douwe Visser, president of the REC and Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), said in a joint letter to their constituencies, "We rejoice in the work of the Holy Spirit which we believe has led us to recommend that the time has come to bring together the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council into one body that will strengthen the unity and witness of Reformed Christians." The new body would be called the World Reformed Communion.

Australia

*Christian Reformed Churches of Australia

Botswana

*Dutch Reformed Church in Botswana

Dominican Republic

*Christian Reformed Church of the Dominican Republic

France

*Evangelical Reformed Church of France (EREI)

Greece

*Greek Evangelical Church

India

*Presbyterian Church of India

Indonesia

*Indonesian Christian Church of Central Java (GKI)
*Javanese Christian Churches (GKJ)
*Christian Church of Sumba (GKS)
*Southernpart Sumatra Christian Church (GKSBS)
*Church of Toraja Mamasa (GTM)
*Toraja Church (GT)

Japan

*The Reformed Church in Japan

Kenya

*The Reformed Church of East Africa

Korea

*The Presbyterian General Assembly (Reformed Church of Korea)

Malawi

*Church of Central Africa Presbyterian - Nkhoma Synod

Mexico

*Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Mexico

Mozambique

*Reformed Church in Mozambique

Myanmar

*Christian Reformed Church in Myanmar

Netherlands

*Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN)

Nigeria

*Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria
*Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv (NKST)
*Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ
*Presbyterian Church of Nigeria
*Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria

Philippines

*Christian Reformed Church in the Philippines

outh Africa

*Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)
*Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA)
*Reformed Church in Africa
*Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA)

ri Lanka

*Dutch Reformed Church in Sri Lanka

waziland

*Reformed Church of Swaziland (SRC)

Uganda

*Christian Reformed Church of East Africa
*Reformed Presbyterian Church in Uganda

United States and Canada

*Christian Reformed Church in North America

External links

* [http://rec.gospelcom.net/index.php?section=1 Web site of the Reformed Ecumenical Council]
* [http://warc.jalb.de/warcajsp/side.jsp?news_id=631&part_id=0&navi=6 World Reformed Communion announcement]


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