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The 1999 Regional Assembly of the Christian Church In Georgia
established the following mission statement:
Our Mission is to be Christs witness in the Georgia Region, growing,
building, and equipping vital faith communities.
They also wrote the following Long Range
Goals.
- To connect and partner churches, seminarians and regional
staff, to Strengthen Lay and Clergy ministries through such things as
placing student pastors in local congregations as needed.
- Connecting seminarians, pastors, and regional staff
together.
- To become and/or develop a database of resources, people,
ministries, gifts and needs, including developing a lay leader institute.
- Start 25 churches in the next 10 years.
- Become a service for the renewal and revitalization of
established congregations.
- Develop a comprehensive and excellent communication
strategy (both internal and external) as a means toward communion.
- Develop innovative capital funding programs and endowments.
- To develop spiritual formation ministries:
sustain, maintain, and revitalizing through
retreat, camp, conference programs, etc.
- To provide support funding, and resources as able and
needed for empowering and equipping faith communities so that they can feed
a spiritually hungry world.
- To continue to grow and provide for more mission events in
Georgia and beyond; being cognizant of faithful stewardship of time and
people, perhaps through creating standing work crews and fostering
ecumenical partnerships.
- Alternate Regional Assembly with the General Assemblies.
- Region to serve the church.
- To be more attentive to modeling inclusive ministry across
the board and to be intentional about developing ministries with youth and
young adult.
- To develop pastor to pastor relationships through personal
contact.
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