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A Celebration towards Christian Unity
Sunday, April 11th, 4:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
73 Lancaster Street
Worcester, MA
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) and the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted in the past two years to enter into full communion.
Full communion is not a merger, but means that the twochurches express a common confession of Christianfaith and mutual recognition of Baptism and sharing Holy Communion. Full communion agrees to mutual recognition of ordained ministers for service in either church, expresses a common commitment to evangelism, witness, and service, and engages in common decision making on critical matters.
As a celebration of this new relationship, Bishop Margaret Payne (New England Synod, ELCA) and Bishop Peter Weaver (New England Conference, UMC) will host a joint worship service on April 11th.
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