Rev. Dr. Daniel Meeter, pastor of Brooklyn’s Old First Reformed Church, will
be attending a Global Dialogue on the ACCRA CONFESSION: Covenanting for
Justice in the Economy and the Earth, in Johannesburg, South Africa,
September 3-8, 2009.
dialogue will include fifty delegates from around the world. Pastor Meeter
will represent the Reformed Church in America.
The ACCRA CONFESSION was drafted in Ghana in 2004. It addresses the
Christian response to the global economic crisis and the heavy burden borne
by poor nations and by the environment. How can the Christian faith bear
witness to economic and environmental justice? The African churches have a
special voice in this, and the global Reformed communion will find ways to
speak with them and respond together.
The World Alliance of Reformed Churches is a fellowship of 75 million
Reformed Christians in 214 churches in 107 countries. Its member churches
are Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed and United churches with roots in
the 16th-century Reformation. It has a small secretariat in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Daniel Meeter has previously served the Reformed Church in America as chair
of its South Africa Task Force, chair of its standing ecumenical commission,
as delegate to the Presbyterian Church, and as dialogue partner with the
Evangelical Lutheran and Moravian churches.