Registration closes on Sunday, August 24, 2014 More faith leaders want to launch new social-service ministries to benefit their communities, but they may not know how to start.
Transformed and empowered leaders are critical to leading congregations to do God’s mission in the world in this challenging era in congregational life. Hope Partnership for Missional Transformation offers leadership and ministry resources that help raise up these leaders and prepare their congregations for transformation.
By Rick Morse, Vice President for Congregational Services Hope Partnership for Missional Transformation
Last week in Indianapolis, Hope Partnership for Missional Transformation hosted a first-of-its-kind training event. The event brought together three groups of people who work to help Hope Partnership live out its mission of “empowering courageous leaders.”
The Yarboroughs were a little “older” when they started something “new” with some of their fellow retirees. Hope Partnership‘s new church planter training played an important role in helping this visionary couple discern about planting a new church in their retirement community.
Starting a church in St. Joseph, Missouri is quite a distance from IS Phillik’s home town of Chuuk State, one of four states located in the Federated States of Micronesia. As a matter of fact, Chuuk Christian Church is located approximately 7,103 miles from this western Pacific nation.
Your church was new once! Do you remember when your church held its very first service? Disciples congregations are invited to reflect and celebrate their church’s beginning when this year’s Pentecost Offering is collected on Sundays, June 1 and June 8.
A newly formed ministers’ track in the Northeastern Region will now provide Haitian pastors with an opportunity to achieve their commission standing with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
The Journey’s weekend-long Experience events equip clergy and lay leaders to see their roles as leaders from a different perspective, so they can help their congregations create and embrace a new vision for their future.
Geoff Mitchell was the pastor of First Christian Church in Keokuk, Iowa for five years. “We loved what we were doing,” he says. “But, it was time to do something different, more bold.”
First Christian Church went on a transformational journey when it partnered with Hope Partnership to engage in the New Beginnings Assessment Service.
Effective and inspiring leaders do not lead alone. They are lifted up by other leaders and peers who walk alongside them on the journey to new congregational life.
