Hope is a Global Mission Church
Because our congregation seeks to serve not just in our community but in the wider world, the Outreach Ministry of Hope went through a three-year process to guide us toward receiving a Global Church designation from the UCC.
Global Ministries is the common witness of the UCC’s Wider Church Ministries (WCM) and the Disciples’ Division of Overseas Ministries (DOM). Our two denominations have a formal partnership through which the UCC and Disciples share common staff, budget, programs/projects, and governance in our presence and witness with international partners throughout the global community. Global Ministries is responsible for helping the UCC and Disciples engage in God’s mission beyond our national boundaries as we walk with our international partners and discern together God’s action in the world.
What is a global mission church?
A global mission church understands itself to be inter-related with the whole of God’s creation across all physical and human-made barriers and seeks to timely and appropriately meet God’s people and creation at the point of deepest need.
A Global Mission Church:
- prays regularly for international partners, missionaries and the world
- educates its members about global issues from preschool age to adult
- seeks justice for the “least of these” in the international community
- receives the gifts of the global church
- gives to the work of global mission
- sends its members into the world to share the Good News of Jesus Christ
- grows in sharing the story of God’s mission with others
Please join us in our mission to participate in this ongoing process of learning, prayer and outreach as we connect with global and local partners to work for justice, reconciliation and peace.
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