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What is Our Church's Wider Mission, Anyway?

Saturday, 31 May 2008 02:27 |

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What IS Our Church’s Wider Mission, Anyway?

It’s a well-kept secret in a lot of places, but Our Church’s Wider Mission is, in a lot of ways, who we are in the United Church of Christ.

Without Our Church’s Wider Mission . . .

We could not gather the great strengths of our congregations or make our voice heard in the public arena.

We would not have missionaries in over 70 countries worldwide.

We could not help small, struggling, or emerging new churches with support for pastors or buildings.

We could not provide congregations with distinctively “UCC” resources: for worship, stewardship, leadership.

Congregations would be entirely on their own when looking for a pastor.

There would be no United Church of Christ presence at all in parts of the United States.

Our Church’s Wider Mission: It’s who we are. Do you and your congregation contribute?