This ministry encourages local churches to shape their life and mission in partnership with one another, with other expressions of the church and with ecumenical and interfaith communities. We will support and pray for these ministries. Our program includes a wide variety of gatherings of the church. Youth come together for exploring faith and life. Leaders come together to learn more effective ways of enabling local churches to be vital communities of faith through worship, evangelism, mission, stewardship, justice, education, nurture, and leadership development.
Training is provided for pastors of new churches.
Still other gatherings bring together networks of people for common sharing and support, learning and witnessing together. Our program includes many essential services to the church. These services support clergy and lay leaders. They provide for a service of vocational placement, connecting congregations with persons authorized for ministry. Other services help our local churches to understand issues of stewardship, how we are gifted by God and how we can call upon each other to be people who give, supporting the wide range of God s mission.