North Carolina Council of Churches | Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina

The North Carolina Council of Churches (NCCC) educates, inspires, and mobilizes faith communities to advocate for justice. Founded in 1935 to address racial inequality, the North Carolina Council of Churches was possibly the first place in North Carolina, or even the southeast, that white and black leaders sat together as equals around the same table to address issues mutually important to all.

NCCC's members include 26 judicatories of 18 denominations and seven individual congregations. Across the state, their members have over 6,200 congregations with about 1.5 million congregants. The Council has often acted courageously in the face of hostility and always spoken prophetically in the face of injustice.

NCCC's primary program areas right now are environmental justice and health and welfare. They are also extensively advocating around gun violence prevention, public education, raising wages, overdose awareness, racial equity, HIV advocacy, mental health advocacy, death penalty abolition, cash bail reform, and immigrants’ rights.

NCCC's Mission

We enable denominations, congregations, and people of faith to impact our state on issues such as economic justice and development, human well-being, equality, and compassion and peace, following the example and mission of Jesus Christ.

NCCC's Vision

People of faith leading the social justice movement to create equitable, compassionate, and thriving communities for all.

Learn more on NCCC's website.

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