Connect
Connect people with God – We are about
making introductions. Introducing people to Jesus is a natural result of
everything else we do and a primary intention of our church.
Connect people with other believers – We build
authentic, transparent, biblical community.
Connect people with the world – As a church and as
individuals, we seek to make connections between believers and their
communities, especially non-believers.
· We engage all media that is available.
· Weekly high energy worship experience with prayer and fellowship before and after on Saturday nights. We will engage all five senses in encountering God.
· Engagement with existing community structures.
· Biblically based ministry, accountability, and prayer groups. The Bible is our text book.
Equip
Equipping believers for life and spiritual development
(discipleship, prayer, fellowship, accountability). One emphasis and point of
uniqueness is that we will strive for daily contact with each other through
multiple media.
Equipping believers for mission and ministry in the
church and the world (Beginning with baptism where every believer is ordained
to ministry, each believer is taught that following Jesus is being on mission).
Equipping potential staff members in our church and
other urban settings (We will create a Training LAB to serve our own people and other churches locally and
around the country. LAB is an
acronym for: L- Living in the field, A –
Application of concepts, B – Briefing and debriefing)
· Live face to face interaction, Web sites, social media, conference calls, text messaging, telephone, daily scripture text messages.
· Life and ministry coaching.
· FUTURE: Formal internship/training program made available to partner churches for equipping their young people and others in urban mission.
Send
Being missional in intention, strategy, action, and
philosophy is integral to who we are and what we teach. Without a mission, the
church does not exist. Therefore, we will send believers back into their work
places, schools, neighborhoods, and volunteer organizations as well as into
churches to do mission and ministry. If participants come from other churches,
we will attempt to equip them for ministry in those churches rather than seek
their loyalty as members of ours.
We will organize and promote short term mission
experiences and will encourage participation in ministries located in and
through the mother church such as the thrift store, skate ministries, men’s
home, and children/youth work.
We will prepare future pastors and mission leaders for
service around the world. Pastoral leadership in our church will be “homegrown”
as much as possible and we will immediately begin to train potential pastors.
· All attempts will be made to keep believers/members unencumbered by unnecessary meetings and administrative tasks and free for mission ministry.
· We will equip and train groups who do ministry to make primary decisions within their groups while giving oversight and direction from staff.
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