Next Steps for Faith in Action

If your congregation has caught the flame of being used by Christ in service to others, the conclusion of the Faith in Action curriculum doesn’t mean you stop living out your faith. The ministry project may be over, but your journey of transformational ministry is just beginning.

What are the next steps for your congregation? Your Faith in Action training and service experience may inspire your church to …

• Make Faith in Action weekend an annual event
• Continue service ministries started through Faith in Action on an ongoing basis
• Organize a group of churches for joint Faith in Action projects
• Take a mission trip to participate in an international Faith in Action project
• Get training to expand the capacity and impact of your faith in action ministry
• Strengthen and expand the community relationships cultivated through Faith in Action
• Build on ministry partnerships formed through Faith in Action with local or national organizations
• Promote ongoing “in-reach” to sustain the congregation’s motivation for Faith in Action
• Engage in a follow-up church-wide campaign to encourage a deeper level of Faith in Action
• Open doors to new outreach initiatives (like the possibilities below.)

Consider which of these suggestions can best enable your congregation to capitalize on ministry momentum … take on new challenges … expand your skills in community transformation … and move into deeper experiences of loving the world in Christ’s name.

The other tools in the CD can help your church’s ministry advance by diagnosing needs for ministry growth (“Building on Faith in Action: Diagnostic Tool”), identifying a ministry focus (“Finding Your Ministry Bulls-Eye”), developing an action plan (“Ministry Opportunities: From Ideas to Action”), and providing information and models (“Resources on Church-Based Community Ministry”).

The needs are great, but the power of God at work in us is greater still:

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
(Ephesians 3:20-21)

Some Possibilities for Ongoing Outreach Ministry

Once your church gets started, you will begin to see endless possibilities for making a difference by serving your community and world. How about …

No church can do everything … but every church is called to do something. Where is God leading you?