Missional Church is not just a buzzword, its a way of doing church that moves the congregation outside the boundries of the building, and into the lives of people who do not know the Good News of Christ.
Organizations that can help your congregation move toward being missional are:
Church Innovations - a non-profit organization devoted to renewing the Church’s focus on God’s mission in the world. Rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and wholly committed to following God’s leading for every congregation, they provide research and consulting tools, products and processes that increase your church’s capacities to experience God’s renewal and transformation.
Church Innovations work crosses denominational and geographical lines and is grounded in two decades of research. Over the years they have worked with more than 1,000 congregations, 75 national and mid-governing bodies, and two dozen denominations in seven countries and across all 50 United States.
the Center for Parish Development- is an ecumenical, missional, research, consulting, and teaching agency founded by a consortium of mission agencies, theological seminaries, and regional church bodies.
The mission of the Center is to discover how the church in general and the local church in particular can learn to discern and participate in God's mission more faithfully and effectively, and to provide counsel and resources to facilitate that transformational process.
The Center carries out this mission by forming dynamic learning partnerships in which the church's life and mission are brought into conversation with theological and organizational systems research, and by sharing with others what we learn in these partnerships.
If you are interested in opportunties for mission-shaped partnerships:
Contact the Presbytery office.
