(Part 1 of 3)
Vision: The Missouri Conference will relentlessly lead our churches to become outwardly focused and spiritually centered Christ followers.
To see this vision come to fruition, the Missouri Conference has developed an action plan with three priorities. Over the next several months, we will be focusing on these three area. This month, we’ll focus on Missional Leaders.
A Missional Leader does these four things:
- Moves from meeting God to an active, growing and authentic faith in Jesus Christ; and
- Is identified as a leader and is mentored by another leader; and
- Provides leadership in their local church and/or beyond, and
- Identifies and has begun mentoring a new leader.
There are different ways to grow Missional Leaders, and none of them involve dousing friends with water, throwing dirt at them, or telling them to get more sun! We’re talking about organic growth (again, do not bury your Missional Leader friends in dirt) from within our church; nurturing individuals and giving them tools to become leaders.
The goal is to increase new missional leaders from 0 to 400 by June 30, 2019, and this effort is being led by the Center for Leadership Excellence. The conference website provides more information about the process and resources that are available. You can go to the website to learn more and also watch the video below.