This congregation’s story offers lessons for others about how a church can greatly expand and deepen its engagement in the city, especially through partnerships with other congregations.
Audience:This will be helpful for leaders at suburban and urban churches looking for models of multi-church collaboration for community transformation.
It describes the development of Tenth’s ACTS ministry and discusses lessons learned regarding lay/leadership collaboration, training, and keeping outreach-ministry “owned” by lay people (rather than being staff driven)
Audience:Leaders at “downtown” urban churches; leaders wanting to learn how other congregations have shifted from internal to external focus
It tells the story of this suburban church’s development of a deep and multi-faceted partnership with a nearby neighborhood, LincolnVillage, starting with creative engagement in the public elementary school there.
Audience:Suburban or rural churches desiring significant community impact; Churches wishing to engage in schools for significant transformation; Churches interested in partnering with others to have community impact.
It tells how Second Baptist reached out to city leaders to learn more about the community and engaged a network of churches to serve public school children.
Audience:Urban, suburban, or rural churches looking to partner together; Churches seeking to do significant work with children and schools