Reformed Ecumenical Council Collection, 1944-2011 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

Collection Overview

Title: Reformed Ecumenical Council Collection, 1944-2011

ID: COLL/434

Extent: 43.0 Boxes

Abstract

Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), formerly Reformed Ecumenical Synod (RES), was a world-wide organization in confessional ecumenism (united testimony to the Reformed faith). REC and World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) disbanded in 2006 and together created a new organization named World Reformed Communion, later modified into World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), 2010. The collection includes articles of association, reports, letters, conference materials, directories, committee materials, correspondence, resolutions, surveys, clippings, handbooks, papers, acts and agendas. RES and REC periodicals are in the main library.

Collection Historical Note

The Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), initially the Reformed Ecumenical Synod (RES), was formed on August 14, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Reformed Ecumenical Council was an international organization of Calvinist churches. About two-thirds of the members of REC were also members of World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC). In 2006 President of REC, Douwe Visser, and president of WARC, Clifton Kirkpatrick, announced the formation of the new organization. The new consolidated organization was called World Communion of Reformed Churches.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Board of Trustees minutes, 1978-2003],
[Series 2: Acts, 1946-2005],
[Series 3: Interim Committee, 1963-2000],
[Series 4: Handbooks, 1963-2001],
[Series 5: Reports, 1947-2007],
[Series 6: Correspondence, 1946-2008],
[Series 7: Committees, Commissions, Conferences, 1966-2004],
[Series 8: Reports, 1944-2005],
[Series 9: Conferences, Meetings, 1967-2008],
[Series 10: Resources material, 1968-2011],
[Series 11: Visits, 1997-2004],
[Series 12: Members, 1962-2007],
[Series 13: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1981-2006],
[All]

Series 9: Conferences, Meetings --- 1967-2008

Box 27

Folder 1: Baarn Missions Conference --- 1968
Folder 2: Missions Conference - Sydney --- 1972
Folder 3: Capetown Missions Conference --- 1976
Folder 4: Training for Missions Conference - Cape Town, S.A. --- 1977
Folder 5: Missions Conference - Nimes --- 1980
Folder 6: Bellville Mission Conference Material --- 1986
Folder 7: Mission Conference - Athens --- 1992
Folder 8: REC Response to Structural Adjustment Programs and Inti Debt --- 1977
Folder 9: Essay: "Koinonia and Mission" by Van Houten --- 2008
Folder 10: Board of Trustees Minutes --- 1979-1980
Folder 11: Reformed Churches in Netherlands (GKN) Report God with Us --- 1979

Box 28

Folder 1-6: World Survey of Reformed Missions --- 1967-1968: 1973; Access Restriction: 1977; Accruals: 1988; Acquisition Information: 1990
Folder 8: Material on the Kairos Document --- 1985-1991
Folder 9: A Contemporary Evangelical Perspective on Roman Catholicism --- 1986
Folder 10: Material on Soweto Situation --- 1976
Folder 11: World Alliance of Reformed Church Conference --- 1979
Folder 12: A Manifesto for the Christian Church Declaration and Covenant --- 1986

Box 23

Folder 7: World Survey of Reformed Theological Education --- 1976

Box 29

Folder 1: Fifth Reformed Ecumenical Synod --- 1963
Folder 2: Fifth R.E.S. Synod News Releases and Daily Bulletins - Grand Rapids --- 1963
Folder 3: Material on the Christian Institute of Southern Africa --- 1963-1976
Folder 4: Regional Conferences Material --- 1965-1967
Folder 5: Conference Papers - Res. Synod --- 1966
Folder 6: Church Order and Church Union Conference --- 1967
Folder 7: Conference Papers of the Synod - Glenside, PA --- 1967
Folder 8: Material on Synod - Amsterdam --- 1968
Folder 9: Conference Papers of the Synod - Japan --- 1970s
Folder 10: Gotemba Conference - Japan --- 1970
Folder 11: Inside: The Conference of Race Relations, Chicago, Illinois --- March 2-5, 1971