In today’s environment of pressing needs and shrinking resources, every organization seeks opportunities to increase its reach and effectiveness by collaborating with others. The Minnesota Council of Churches, however, was founded on a principle of collaboration from the start. As a statewide ecumenical agency formed in 1948, it has brought together mainline-Protestant denominations in Minnesota for over half a century. Today, with its mission “to manifest unity in the church and to build common good in the world,” the Council not only builds relationships between denominations but also, significantly, within the larger religious community as well as with other organizations, agencies and institutions within the nonprofit and public sectors across the state.
The Minnesota Council of Churches is a community of communions who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As such, it seeks to manifest within the State of Minnesota the unity of the Church in Christ. Relying on the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, the Council works to bring its members into life-giving fellowship and into common witness, study and action to the glory of God and in service to all creation.
Identity: Related in Christ, and through Christ, to the world.
Mission: To manifest unity in the church and to build the common good in the world.
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