Actions speak louder than words. Our hope is to redefine our task as doing mission rather than attending a meeting to talk about it. We want to encourage short term, well defined mission projects where persons are asked to give specific time, energy, and dollars. Mission is ministry of the local church. We want to accentuate the strength of our connectional system by linking churches in their mission rather than deploying a separate mission of the Annual Conference.
Leadership development is a vital key.
We must learn new ways of recruiting the next generation of volunteers and leaders. The new generation of disciples needs to be asked. A new structure will not automatically change our old habits but at the least it can provide a new vehicle with the potential to move us from wandering in the old wilderness to finding our way in a new one. Here are the areas of mission in which we hope to work these changes. Volunteers in Mission, Urban and Ethnic Ministries, and Town and Country Ministries, are three of the Standing Task Forces within the Servants Team.