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Curriculum
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Committee on the Uniform Series
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Curriculum Conversation Relating Theory and Practice
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Professional Church Leadership
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Justice for Children and Their Families
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Ecumenical Young Adult Ministries Team
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Committee on Deaf Ministries
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Pacific/Asian-American Canadian Christian Education
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Black Congregational Ministries
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Curriculum and Leader Formation
Committee
on the Uniform Series
 Probably the oldest ecumenical committee in existence, the
Committee on the Uniform Series celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2002. For a century
and a quarter, Protestants of many traditions have worked together to create outlines for
church school curriculum based on "the uniform principle," meaning that everyone
in church school on a given Sunday would study the same passage of Scripture. This ideal
has motivated what is surely the most ecumenically and racially diverse group related to
the NCC to work together faithfully on producing the most widely used approach to Bible
study in the Protestant churches. A fascinating history of the Committee and of the Sunday
School Movement in the United States, "Our Heritage in the Uniform Series," may
be requested from the committee's administrator.
T wenty-two denominations
and their representative staff form
the committee which meets annually. They are working on outlines for the years 2004 to
2010 and will build that six-year cycle around several biblically rooted themes. Efforts
are underway to adapt the outlines to a more Afri-centric approach for use in African
American congregations.
Click here for the
committee's 2006 annual report.
Barbara Tilley provides administrative support to the committee.
E-mail: btilley@ncccusa.org
The newest committee related to ELMC aims to help
denominational education and publishing staffs work together with academics and other
consultants to equip themselves with contemporary research and theory about teaching and
learning among children, youth and adults. This is especially important as new ecumenical
curriculum developments get underway in anticipation of the next century.
At the 1998 annual meeting, the committee discussed a paper on
"Technology and Faith Formation," which is available from CCRTP.
The committee has undertaken the production of a developmental
chart that reflects emerging research on the impact of gender, race, culture, orientation,
and abilities on human growth for use by curriculum writers and editors, professors of
religious education, and local church educators.
Staff support to the committee is provided by
Garland F. Pierce.
Click here for the committee's 2006 annual report.
Professional Church Leadership
Professional Church Leadership has as its focus the concern of the
Church for its professional leadership, both lay and ordained. PCL
is a colleague group whose purpose is to encourage and to
implement ecumenical efforts in the areas of enlistment,
theological and professional training, career-span education,
career assessment and planning, placement and deployment,
specialized ministries, bi-occupational careers, and salary
support, and to clarify the issues and unique opportunities with
special attention to white women and racial ethnic women and men
in ministry that emerge in relation to these areas of concern.
PCL is also an advocate for issues related to women and racial and
ethnic leaders in ministry, as well as other areas where it feels
the Church should give special attention to the support needs of
its professional leadership.
PCL
affirms three fundamental purposes for gathering:
1. For
collegial sharing and networking about issues related to church
leadership;
2. For
continuing education and focused exploration of significant issues
facing the church’s leaders;
3. For
coordinated programmatic effort to address common issues.
Programmatic collaboration would focus ordinarily on issues of
compelling significance that impact all or most PCL communions.
PCL itself would determine that it has energy and desire to
undertake such collaborative programming.
Membership:
Offices
within NCCC member communions and related denominations whose work
is focused on professional church leadership development and that
participate in and fund PCL may designate up to two (2) persons to
membership on Professional Church Leadership. Non-member
denominations may be invited by the Executive Committee to send
one (1) representative to PCL.
This committee came to ELMC from Joint Educational Development, a
consortium of denominations engaged in producing curriculum and training for church
educators. Its mission is to foster ecumenical continuing educational opportunities for
all kinds of professional and paraprofessional church educators.
In February 1999 the committee sponsored "God's People
Transformed for the 21st Century," an ecumenical gathering of 2000 educators.
In December 1999 they sponsored a consultation, "Toward a
Vision of Shared Partnership in the Formation of Church Educators" with Anne Wimberly
and Mary Elizabeth Moore.
Staff support to the committee is provided by
Garland F. Pierce.
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