A Way to Transform the Judicatory

The Center for Parish Development can assist the judicatory and all its congregations and units to discern God's vision and more faithfully engage the missionary context in which they exist. With the Center's approach you can expect the transformation journey to achieve the following goals:

Recognizing the Context

• To recognize that your judicatory and its congregations are in mission territory.
  
• To move beyond demographics to discern and engage powerful patterns, beliefs and values, the "principalities and powers."
  

Discerning God's Vision

• To discern God's vision for your regional body in its changed mission context.
  
• To be responsive to the Spirit to discover new ways of being the church.
  

Organizing for Mission

• To organize your life together around the vision.
  
• To clarify priorities and structure to carry out the mission.
  

Equipping with Resources

• To equip leaders with theological and practical resources for missionary engagement.
  
• To cultivate consistently those Christian practices that form and build up faithful missional community.
  

Connecting with One another

• To strengthen relationships among units and congregations for joint mission.
  
• To share mutually and more fully your gifts, testimonies, and life in Christ across the boundaries of your diverse church family.