The 150-member WCC central committee serves as the Council's chief governing body between its assemblies. Meeting every 12 to 18 months, it is responsible for carrying out policies adopted by the assembly, reviewing and supervising WCC programmes and adopting the Council's budget.
The overall theme of this 15-22 February 2005 meeting of the committee in Geneva is healing and reconciliation. At what will be its last meeting before the 9th assembly in February 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the committee will be listening to the reports of the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, and moderator HH Aram I, and discussing a range of key ecumenical issues, reviewing preparations for the assembly, evaluating WCC programmes, and issuing statements on public issues.
