Working with the World Council of Churches: A Personal Reflection

Author: 
The Revd Matthew Z. Ross

Rev Matthew Ross offers a personal reflection on time recently spent with the WCC leading projects related to diakonia which involved not only clarifying the theology and writing related documents but in developing processes for the furtherance of training for leadership in the Church’s service of the Gospel, which involved travel in many countries working with local churches. The article gives an up-to-date view of the WCC and its work today and confirms the importance of working at ecumenical relations.

Reference: 
Volume 58 pp 26-31

Matthew Ross is a minister of the Church of Scotland. Ordained by the Presbytery of St Andrews in 1998, he has served as a parish minister in Fife and Midlothian, with the Conference of European Churches based in Brussels, as General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland and with the World Council of Churches. He is currently locum minister at Colinton Parish Church, Edinburgh, and also working part-time as a researcher with the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.