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Fifty one leaders of Christian churches and Christian national organizations forged their way through crisp January weather, and over winding roads framed by open pastures, to convene at the Episcopalian retreat center, Camp Allen, near Houston, Texas. Their purpose was to continue working together to launch Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT).

At Camp Allen, participants prayed and talked together; celebrated CCT’s expanding and broadening range of participants; identified and achieved consensus on questions related to CCT’s founding document; engaged in discussions about the nature of prayer as viewed from diverse Christian traditions; dialogued about the explosion of Christianity in the global South and the implications for Christianity in the USA; and deepened their fellowship in Christ through numerous personal conversations.

CCT’s Steering Committee, led by Wes Granberg-Michaelson, reported that more than twenty-five Christian communions and organizations are currently officially engaged, in ways appropriate to each entity’s polity and procedures, in deciding to become founding participants of Christian Churches Together. It is expected that a substantial number of denominations from all five Christian families will decide to become founding participants of Christian Churches Together by May, 2005.

Actions taken by CCT meeting participants included appointing By-laws and Out Reach subcommittees, adding three new members to the Steering Committee, Carlos Malave, Jeff Farmer and Don Williams, and setting May, 2005 as a tentative meeting date to officially launch CCT.