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The Christian Communion International was established in September, 2005, as the result of a merger of the CEEC Province of the USA and the International Communion of Christian Churches. Since that point, the CCI has developed internationally with close to 3,000 congregations and their leadership involved in a process to be fully received into the CCI from 41 different nations.
A commitment to and focus on church planting, evangelism, discipleship formation and leadership development characterize the member bodies of the Christian Communion International, whose mission is “the apostolic empowerment of God’s people for service through convergence of Scripture, Spirit and Sacrament to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.”
Within the life of the CCI, there are people from various denominational, ethnic and racial backgrounds and age groups, all seeing themselves as one family in relational connection through the Holy Spirit, led, cared for and equipped by bishops who serve as spiritual fathers in God’s family and household. Networks of churches from Mexico, Spain, Europe, Latin America, Asia, the former Soviet Union and Africa are also an extension of the apostolic work and mission of the CCI around the world, as the Holy Spirit continues to move and draw hearts together in unity with a purpose – the fulfilling of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission!
As Christ is lifted up in the unity of His people, all learning from one another and drawing from the spiritual treasures God has deposited in His Church over the centuries in each stream, a greater fullness is experienced, sometimes described as “the fullness of Christ within the fullness of His Church”. This work of God has not been highly “publicized”. Consequently, it has remained the sovereign work of God as He brings lives together in a common vision of the fullness of the essential nature of the Church seen in the convergence and flowing together of Scripture, Spirit, Sacrament and Service.
