WCRC begins extensive discernment process on COVID-19 pandemic

“What does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in an Age of COVID-19 and Beyond,” the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s Communion-wide discernment process, began with a global online gathering and a call to prophetic… Read More

WCRC members invited to join discernment process

On 9 December the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) will launch an extensive discernment process, “What does God require of us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond.” This year-long Communion-wide undertaking will… Read More

Discernment process relies on group consensus to discover God’s will

by Amy Eckert Over the course of the week and a half that the General Council has gathered in Leipzig, attendees have had many opportunities to hear of discernment. But what is discernment precisely? How does the process… Read More

Terence Corkin brings discernment processes to the WCRC in Leipzig

By Amy Eckert Terence Corkin, ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and a discernment facilitator and coach, arrived at the WCRC General Council in Leipzig with a new book in hand: The Church Guide for… Read More

COVID & Beyond process focuses on discernment

The “Discerning Circle” of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s “What does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond” process will begin with a livestreamed session on Wednesday, 27… Read More

Messages of urgency brought to “COVID & Beyond” process

The third “circle” of the World Communion of Reformed Churches’ (WCRC) “COVID & Beyond” discernment process concluded with an online meeting on Wednesday, 4 August. “We are gathering all that we have heard over the last two months,… Read More

Executive Committee sets course for Communion

The work of the World Communion of Reformed Churches was pointed toward the 2025 General Council by the Executive Committee during its annual meeting, held 17-20 May 2022. “We come together as an Executive Committee not to merely… Read More

Sharing Session: Youth and North East Asia

The World Communion of Reformed Churchs’ “COVID & Beyond” discernment process continued with a sharing session featuring members of the WCRC Youth Network and member churches from North East Asia.

Essays invited for Lombard Prize

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), in association with Lombard, Odier & Cie, Bankers of Geneva, Switzerland, invite young people to participate in the WCRC Youth Network’s call for essays. The focus of theological education on ministerial… Read More

Executive Committee approves interim plan, leadership model

A “collegial general secretariat” will lead the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) during a year-long interim period, beginning 1 September. The WCRC Executive Committee approved an interim plan that mandates the three executive secretaries take on the… Read More