Committee for Ecumenical Contact with Churches Abroad

CECCA

Rev. Jason Tuinstra, Chairman

Rev. Dick Moes, Secretary

Rev. Ancel Merwin, member

Rev. Ray Sikkema, member

Rev. Rick Miller, member

Rev. Michel Persaud, member

Br. Gerald Swets, member

Br. Ryan Glomsrud, member

Br. Doug L. Field, member

The Committee for Ecumenical Contact with Churches Abroad (CECCA) has the privilege of representing the United Reformed Churches in North America outside of North America. The fact that the URCNA has a committee for this purpose is an indication that it considers ecumenical contact to be of utmost importance for the ongoing church gathering work of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Lord’s Day 21 of the Heidelberg Catechism, we confess that the communion of saints means: “First, that believers one and all, as members of this community, share in Christ and in all his treasures and gifts. Second, that each member should consider it a duty to use these gifts readily and cheerfully for the service and enrichment of the other members.” Because the URCNA has appointed a Committee for Ecumenical Contact with Churches Abroad, it believes that what we confess here about the communion of saints in local congregations also applies to the communion of saints between Reformed church federations throughout the world.