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Acronym |
Full Name |
| ACTS | Action of Churches Together in Scotland |
| AIF | Association of Inter-Church Families |
| ARCIC | Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission |
| BCC | British Council of Churches (1942-1990) |
| BCCG | Black Christian Concerns Group (CCBI and CTE) |
| BEM | "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" -a report of ecumenical convergence from WCC Faith & Order Commission |
| Bossey | Ecumenical training institute of WCC. a few miles from Geneva |
| BUGB | Baptist Union of Great Britain |
| CACLB | Churches Advisory Council for Local Broadcasting - pronounce Cacklebee (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| CAFOD | Catholic Fund for Overseas Development |
| Called to be One | Process exploring our understanding of unity within CTE Member Churches |
| CALM | Christian Adult
Learning Meeting (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| CAP | Churches Action on Poverty |
| CCBI | Council of Churches of
Britain & Ireland (legal successor of BCC) |
| CCEE | Council of European Bishops’ Conferences of the Roman Catholic Church |
| CCIFR | Churches Committee on
Inter Faith Relations (a Commission of CCBI) |
| CCOM | Churches Commission on
Mission (a Commission of CCBI) |
| CCRJ | Churches Commission for
Racial Justice (a Commission of CCBI) |
| CCU | Council for Christian
Unity (responsible to Church of England General Synod) |
| CCU | Commission for Christian Unity (Roman Catholic) |
| CCWA | Churches Community Work
Alliance (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| CEA | Christian Enquiry Agency (an Agency of CTE) |
| CEC | Conference of European Churches |
| CEM | Christian Education Movement |
| CEN | Churches Education
Network (a Co-ordinating group of CTE) |
| CEO | County Ecumenical Officer |
| CFWM | Conference for World Mission |
| CIM | Churches Information
for Mission (harmonising churches’ computer-held data) |
| CJEPC | Churches Joint Policy
Education Committee (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| CNHC | Churches National Housing Coalition |
| CTBI | Churches Together in Britain and Ireland |
| CTE | Churches Together in England |
| CUF | Church Urban Fund (Church of England) |
| CWME | Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches |
| CYTUN | Churches Together in Wales |
| DAWN 2000 | Discipling A Whole Nation (or Discipling a Whole Neighbourhood) - a strategy for church planting |
| DEO | Denominational Ecumenical Officer |
| DEO | Diocesan Ecumenical Officer |
| English ARC | Working Group for England relating to ARCIC |
| ECYS | English Churches Youth Service (regular meeting of youth sections and Churches and Christian organisations - a Co-ordinating committee of CTE) |
| ENFYS | Commission of Covenanted Churches in Wales |
| FCFC | Free Church Federal
Council (Since 2002, the Free Churches’ Group) |
| Fetter Lane: | Agreement between Church of England and the Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland : (The Agreement was approved by both General Synod and Moravians in July 1996, and was signed Nov 1998) |
| GLU | Group for Local Unity (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| GOSE | Government Office for the South East. This represents Central Government in the South East and works to influence and develop government programmes and initiatives at a regional and local level. GOSE achieves this through sponsorship and support of SEEDA and by working with partners in voluntary, private and public sectors including the Regional Assembly (SEERA) |
| INDEM | Group for Mission in
Industry and the Economy (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| ISE | Irish School of Ecumenics (based in Dublin) |
| JCYS | Joint Churches Youth Service (co-ordinating denominational youth work in England) |
| JLG | Joint Liturgical Group |
| JPIC | Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation (initially a WCC programme but now a widely used shorthand for this group of social responsibility concerns) |
| Jubilee 2000 | Campaign endorsed by Christian Aid, CAFOD and Tear Fund for Third World Debt Remission |
| LAG | Local Advisory Group (small group appointed by Sponsoring Body to advise an LEP) |
| LEP | Local Ecumenical Partnership (formerly Local Ecumenical Project) |
| Leuenberg | Agreement between Lutheran & Reformed Churches in Germany |
| Lund Principle | Churches ought to act together in all matters except those in which deep differences of conviction compel them to act separately |
| MAP | Media Awareness Project |
| MAP | Mission Alongside the Poor (Methodist equivalent to Church Urban Fund) |
| Meissen | Agreement between Church of England & German Lutheran Churches |
| MTSG | Ministerial Training Strategy Group (CBI Network) |
| NACCAN | National Association of Christian Communities & Networks |
| Opps for Vols | Opportunities for Volunteering (an Agency of CTE) |
| OWW | One World Week |
| Porvoo | Common Statement of Anglican Churches in Britain & Ireland and Baltic & Scandinavian Lutheran Churches |
| Santiago | WCC Faith & Order Conference venue 1993 |
| SCUP | Standing Conference for Unity in Prayer (related to CCBI) |
| SEEDA | South East England Development Authority |
| SEERA | South East England Regional Assembly. Formed in January 1999, SEERA is the REgional Assembly designated as the regional chamber for the South East. It has 111 members, two-thirds of them elected councillors nominated by all of the region's seventy-four authorities, three representatives of town and parish councils and the balance from social and economic partners, including business, trade unions, the voluntary sector and education. |
| SEITE | South East Institute for Theological Education |
| SRB | Single Regeneration Budget (the major government funding programme for cities) |
| Swanwick Declaration |
Declaration to move from co-operation to commitment, Sept 1987 - basis for the new ecumenical instruments |
| TUG | Theology and Unity
Group (a Co-ordinating Group of CTE) |
| URC | United Reformed Church |
| WCC | World Council of Churches |
| WDM | World Development Movement |
| WICC | Women’s Inter-Church Council (network of women’s groups in the churches) |