The United Church of Christ (UCC) and The United Church of Canada entered into a formal full-communion agreement in 2015, following unanimous votes by both denominations. This full communion was affirmed by the UCC General Synod in June 2015 and by the United Church General Council in August 2015, and was further celebrated through a joint worship service on October 17, 2015.
As we celebrate that 10th anniversary this year, we gather for an online worship service rejoicing in the deepening partnership between our churches. We invite you to join us online—and to share the livestream with your congregations and communities—so that churches and members across both denominations can participate together in this joyful celebration. Together, we celebrate the joy of our shared ministry, affirm our continuing commitment to one another, and look with gratitude and excitement toward all that God is calling us to do—side by side—in the years to come.
Register for the online worship service on Zoom.
Featured guests include:
Rev. Michael Blair serves the General Council of The United Church of Canada as the General Secretary, a role he began in November 2020. He is the first person of African descent to serve in this role in the United Church. Michael serves as moderator of the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. Michael previously served as a congregational minister of a number of Baptist churches in Toronto and St. Catharine’s, Ontario.
Rev. Philip Vinod Peacock of India is general secretary-elect of The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), formerly serving as the WCRC’s executive secretary for justice and witness. He holds a Master of Theology degree from Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary. An ordained minister of the Church of North India, he was an associate professor of social analysis at Bishop’s College in Kolkata, where he taught Dalit and feminist theology, among other subjects, since 2000.
Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson is the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. A Jamaican immigrant, Thompson is the third person of African descent to serve as leader of the denomination. Thompson holds a doctorate in ministry, with a dissertation in religious multiplicity among African Caribbean people, from Seattle University, a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, and a master of public administration degree from North Carolina Central University.