The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a global fellowship of churches, denominations, and Christian communities from more than 110 countries, representing over 500 million Christians. Its 350 member churches include most of the world’s Orthodox traditions, as well as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, United, and Independent churches. While its early membership was largely European and North American, the WCC today is a truly global body, with most of its members located in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific. The CCCAS has been a member of the WCC since 1985, participating in this worldwide movement for Christian unity and common witness.

At its heart, the WCC is a fellowship of churches that confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and seek to fulfill their shared calling to the glory of the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is a community journeying toward visible unity, expressed in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, lived out through worship, service, and common life in Christ. The WCC strives toward this unity in response to Christ’s prayer “that they may all be one… so that the world may believe” (John 17:21).

As the largest and most recognized Christian organization in the world, partnership with the WCC offers the CCCAS a platform for world-wide exposure.   With the task that its mission reaches the ‘ends of the earth,’ working in partnership as a member of the WCC allows the CCCAS the opportunity to fulfill this task.  Involvement in global-wide programs that advocate unity, peace and justice; mission programs that strengthen ecumenical relations with other member churches; and involvement in inter-religious dialogue with other faith groups on a global scale, are just some of the benefits that a partnership with the WCC offers the CCCAS.