Our Programs

Ecumenical Education and Nurture

§ Is involved in teaching and cultivating future leaders of ecumenism as concretized in its activities and program thrusts:

> Vacation Church School:  Formation of children centered on themes such as peace, unity, and cooperation in response to nurture and value formation thrust

> Basic Ecumenical Course:  A 6-week training module for youth and laypersons

> Summer Internship Program:  A 6-week immersion program for seminarians that they may experience the life of our marginalized brothers and sisters as well as be exposed to the ecumenical movement

The Basic Ecumenical Course and the Summer Internship  Program together with personnel and human resource  development are activities under capacity building and  ecumenical formation thrust

§ Gives special focus to women, children and youth for they are the ones most vulnerable to abuse in accordance to the program’s empowerment and leadership formation thrust

Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations

§ Actively initiates and participates in establishing relations with people of other faiths by working together on common issues like poverty, militarization, health care and education

§ Ministers to indigenous peoples by taking their perspective and bringing their issues and concerns to the Church, and by supporting indigenous peoples’ initiatives on literacy and numeracy programs and fact-finding missions. 

§ Establishes links with various agencies to cooperatively work towards shared goals

Faith, Witness and Service

§ Initiates development education activities for awareness building and skills training towards strengthening constituencies and networks among the clergy, the laity and the wider public

§ Engages in advocacy work on current and emerging issues that affect human rights and dignity, justice, peace and environment

§ Coordinates ecumenical direct services to victims of natural and/or human-made calamities and human rights violations through relief and rehabilitation assistance or solidarity support

National Council of Churches in the Philippines

Sangguniang Pambansa ng Mga Simbahan sa Pilipinas