1Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed., The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ (Cleveland:  The Pilgrim Press, 1995– 200_), xi.

 2Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. , The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ (Cleveland:  The Pilgrim Press, 2000), vol. 5, Outreach and Diversity, ed. Margaret Lambert Bendroth, Lawrence N. Jones, and Robert A. Schneider, 1.

 3Constitution and Rules of the World Council of Churches, http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?id=2297.

 4 Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. , The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ (Cleveland:  The Pilgrim Press, 2001), vol. 6, Growing Toward Unity, ed. Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke,  3.

 5Stephen Neill,  A History of Christian Missions, ,  (London:  Pelican Books, 1964; reprint,  London:  Penguin Books, 1986), 477.