Thank you for supporting Christian Churches Together!

Your contribution enables us to broaden our reach, engage with more communities, and strengthen the bonds of unity among diverse Christian traditions.

Christian Churches Together (USA) is a public charity recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS under Section 501(c)(3); your contribution is deductible for income tax purposes.

Christian Churches Together brings together the diversity of Christian churches and organizations in the U.S. to foster loving relationships, cultivate theological learning, and discern, through consensus, how we bear witness to the reconciling power of Jesus.

The idea of Christian Churches Together in the USA began in September, 2001, with a meeting of church leaders in the U.S. who explored the need for expanding fellowship, unity, and witness among the diverse expressions of Christian faith today. They lamented the absence of any one place where representatives of Pentecostal, Evangelical, Historic Black, Mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox churches could come together officially to strengthen their unity in Christ and empower their mission. In 2006 in Atlanta, thirty-four Pentecostal, Evangelical, Historic Black, Mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox churches and Christian organizations adopted the By-Laws and organized as Christian Churches Together (USA).

In the late 2010’s, the Steering Committee (CCT’s governing body) drafted a foundational document titled, “The Vision, Mission, and Process of CCT,” which was adopted by all Participant communions and organizations in 2020. Key to this document is the identification of CCT as based on three principles: Loving Relationships, Learning Theologically, and Leading Actions. Through these three principles, CCT provides a way for its “Participants”—currently 34 Christian communions (denominations) and organizations representing over 57 million Americans—to commit to working together in discernment and to engage in steps that lead to Beloved Community.

CCT is led by a Steering Committee—representing all five “families” of American Christianity—and its Executive Director, Dr. Monica Schaap Pierce.