‘MESSAGES OF HOPE IN A COMPLEX WORLD'

In the digital age, with an increasingly secular and individualistic society, how can churches together proclaim anew Jesus’ message of faith, hope and love? 

How can churches build up communities by witnessing to unity through working together to create space for dialogue and engagement, collaboration and cooperation?

*Theme Exploration: If the life of churches in Australia lies together, then in word and deed we must be carriers of ‘Messages of Hope’.

• What is the role of the NCCA in this?
• What is it that the NCCA can uniquely undertake with the churches in Australia? 

*Strategy Development: How do we live out our ecumenical life so that we are working together as churches to inspire positive change? 

*Collaborative Efforts: How can we collaborate as churches to address challenges in spreading hope and foster innovative solutions to cultivate hope in our communities? 

THE BASIS OF THE NCCA

The NCCA gathers together in pilgrimage those churches and Christian communities, which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and commit themselves

 i) to deepen their relationship with each other in order to express more visibly the unity willed by Christ for his Church, and

 ii) to work together toward the fulfillment of their mission of common witness, proclamation and service to the glory of the One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

NCCA Constitution, 2016

REV PROF DR JERRY PILLAY, WCC GENERAL SECRETARY  

Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, 9th General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), is an Eminent Ecumenical guest at the NCCA Forum. 

Rev. Pillay is a Reformed pastor, member of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and former Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.