WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 3

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

SECOND ASSEMBLY AT EVANSTON More than 1000 persons fron \_ 48 nations, including about 20 from New Zealand, will attend the second assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston, near Chicago, from August 15 to August 31. The New Zealanders attending will be either delegates or accredited visitors from four of the nine denominations which are represented on the New Zealand National Council of Churches—Anglican, Churches of Christ, Methodist, and Presbyterian. . The assembly, which is the main body for working out the policy and programme of the World Council of Churches, will consider certain issues of Christian faith and message. Subjects of discussion will include the disunity of the churches, evangelism, social questions, international affairs, racial tensions, and Christian lay persons and their jobs. The assembly will attend morning and evening worship, according to several different patterns of liturgy. Holy Communion services will be conducted i in different ways, and a united service ■ of preparation for Communion will be held. Bible study will concentrate on the First Epistle of St. Peter. Several special hymns have been ’ written for the Evanston assembly, in--1 eluding one by Miss Georgia Harkness. " who is professor of applied theology at " the Pacific School of Religion m t Berkeley, California.