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New Reformed communion plans 2010 launch in Grand Rapids: World Communion of Reformed Churches

The Christian Reformed Church, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will host the inaugural meeting of the newly formed, 80-million-member World Communion of Reformed Churches in the summer of 2010.

The merger, agreed to last year in Trinidad, combines the larger World Alliance of Reformed Churches, headquartered in Geneva, and the Reformed Ecumenical Council, based in Grand Rapids. Some Reformed denominations, such as the CRC, were already members of both international bodies.