NCC Sunday School Committee To Meet In Charleston,
S.C. March 19-23
40-Member Group Will Hold
Special Worship Service Mar. 19 in Support of NAACP Sanctions
March 14, 2000,
NEW YORK CITY ---- The National Council of Churches (NCCs) Committee on the
Uniform Series (CUS), which develops outlines for Sunday school resources used by a
diverse range of church educators and publishers, will meet at the Radisson Hotel in
Charleston, S.C., March 19-23 as planned, but will support NAACP sanctions as it can
throughout the meeting.
This
committee lays the groundwork for development of Sunday School materials that impact
millions on any given Sunday, said Dr. Mary Love, Editor of Church School Literature
for the African Episcopal Methodist Zion Church, Charlotte, N.C., CUS Committee chair. CUS is a committee of the NCCs Ministries in
Christian Education Department. One of
our main goals is to help people know the content of the Bible and understand the
relationship of scripture to situations today, Dr. Love explained.
In support of
the NAACPs call for economic sanctions against South Carolinas tourism
industry, the 40-member committee will hold an opening worship service on Sunday, March
19, at 6:30 p.m. at Greater St. Lukes AME Church (African Methodist Episcopal), 78
Gordon Street. This Service of Prayer
and Reconciliation will address the issue of the Confederate battle flag in the
states capitol and is being planned by members of the CUS committee with members of
the Charleston, S.C., committee, including the Rev. Joe Darby, pastor of Morris Brown AME
Church, and the Rev. Arnold Nelson, a regional minister for the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) in South Carolina. The
community is invited to participate in this service.
The group also
will hold its closing banquet, on Wednesday, March 22, at a local church, the Zion Olivet
Presbyterian Church, 130 Cannon St., and will join the 7 p.m. Lenten service. The group also will support local
minority-owned businesses whenever it can during the week, said the Rev. Patrice
Rosner, MCEs Executive Director.
At least 16
denominations will send representatives to this meeting, including: African Methodist
Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, American Baptist Churches, USA,
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Church of the Brethren, Church of God (Anderson),
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, Mennonite
Church, National Baptist Convention, National Missionary Baptist Convention of America,
National Primitive Baptist Convention, Inc., Presbyterian Church (USA), Seventh Day
Baptist, United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church.
The
committee includes theologians, curriculum developers, age group specialists, writers and
Christian educators, and reflects considerable cultural diversity. The committee works several years ahead; this
meeting will work on outlines for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.
Each denomination selects writers to develop and fine-tune outlines for
their own constituency. The committee
is remarkably ecumenical and diverse, encompassing 20 denominations with their own
doctrines and understandings, Dr. Love said. I
always marvel at how we can come together and develop something in a weeks time with
all the diversity in the group.
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