Wednesday, January 22, 2025
12:00-1:00 pm
Interchurch Center Chapel
61 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10115
Please join us for an ecumenical service of the word in observance of the 2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, hosted by Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute and the Interchurch Center’s Committee on Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Community Concerns.
The in-person prayer service, with co-presiders from four Christian traditions, is open to the public and will be held Wednesday, January 22nd, 12:00-1:00 Eastern.
The service will be live-streamed via the Interchurch Center’s Youtube channel:
Click here to watch the stream.
Fr. Emil Tomaskovic, SA, Minister General of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, will co-preside alongside distinguished guests from the Protestant, Orthodox, and Pentecostal communities. The Rev. Dr. Cheryl Dudley, Regional Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metro New York, will be this year’s preacher.
The 2025 theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is “Do you believe?” (John 11:26): the theme honors the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, at which the question of common belief was upheld as a paramount pillar for church integrity, while also drawing us into the gospel episode of the resurrection of Lazarus, offering a promise of hope in times of communal fragmentation and death-dealing power. For more information about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the 2025 theme, or materials to aid in observing the WPCU in your home community, visit the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity page.