DRAFT ACTS 1224 CHURCHES MISSION CHURCH NETWORK

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Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network

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Acts 12:24 Churches Mission Church Network


Purpose

The purpose of Act 12:24 Church Development Network (CDN) is to Steward existing congregations by providing training and oversight, to Expand the Kingdom through church planting and to Multiply the church by providing training in Community Church Planting movements.


Goals of Acts 12:24 Church Development Network

  1. To serve as a “step in” for local congregations to full affiliation with the Free Methodist Church (and possibly as “step out’ of full affiliation with the Free Methodist Church)

  2. To orient young or struggling churches to their “true north;” i.e. to direct their energy and resources toward evangelism and discipleship

  3. To develop new churches both inside and outside the denomination

  4. To provide oversight and training to churches in other countries, as well as planting new churches in other countries

  5. To provide training in the five basic church strategies: empty field, gospel field, growing field, harvest field and in leadership multiplication

  6. To raise up many new well-trained pastors who are equipped to plant and lead churches

  7. To raise money for church development, both inside and outside the denomination


Logistics

  1. Churches in the Act 12:24 CDN will meet at least annually with Acts 12:24 Free Methodist Churches at Reframe Confereence, with minimally the pastor and one lay delegate attending.

  2. Churches in Acts 12:24 CDN will agree to the essentials of the Christian Faith, preach salvation in Jesus Christ, and live in harmony with the Free Methodist Articles of Religion.

  3. Ordination will be available through the Free Methodist Church.


Organizational items

  1. Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network will function as a subsidiary organization of the Acts 12:24 Free Methodist Conference.

  2. The Acts 12:12 Board of Administration will select the board for the Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network

  3. The Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network will be free to solicit funds both inside and outside the Free Methodist Church and those funds will be channeled through Acts 12:24 Churches and thus will be tax deductible

  4. The Acts 12:24 superintendent will be the executive director of Acts 12:24 CDN, although the CDN board may choose another director (s) to oversee day to day operations.

  5. Acts 12:24 Church Development Network may choose to dissolve a relationship with a local church without cause

Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network Agreement with a Local Church


The purpose of Act 12:24 Church Development Network (CDN) is Steward existing congregations by providing training and oversight, to Expand the Kingdom through church planting and to Multiply the church by providing training in Community Church Planting movements.


Acts 12:24 Mission Church Network agrees to work with _____________ church with the goal of assisting that church to become self-sustaining, self governing, and self reproducing, and agrees to provide some or all of the following:


  1. Training for the church in the five strategies of a New Testament Church:

Empty field strategies (Engage the culture)

Gospel Field Strategies (Equip everyone to evangelize)

Growing Field Strategies (Establish Biblical foundations in new believers that enable them to become self feeding disciples)

Harvest Field Strategies (Encourage them to develop new congregations)

Leadership Development Strategies (Empower those God is calling to lead)


  1. Pastoral training with a path to ordination in the Free Methodist Church


  1. Oversight as needed by providing on site visits for such purposes as training, counsel, and encouragement, either from the conference of from a mother church.


  1. Provide a path to the church to full membership in the Free Methodist Church with all the rights and privileges that membership brings. (501c3, pension, loans through the Free Methodist Foundation and Risk Mitigation through being part of two larger corporations).


5. Partial funding for new church plants


The Local Church will agree to:


1. Participate as a part of Acts 12:24 Churches by attending Reframe conference (at least the pastor and a lay delegate who will have a voice but not a vote)

2. Be under the spiritual authority of Acts 12:24 Church Development Network

3. Agree to the essentials of the Christian Faith, preach salvation in Jesus Christ, and live in harmony with the Free Methodist Articles of Religion.

4. Agree to regular reporting of progress to Acts 12:24 CDN

5. Agree to regular evaluation of the progress of the church by Acts 12:24 CDN

6. If Acts 12:24 CDN provides funding the local church will agree to submit written budgets regularly to Acts 12:24 CDN

7. Submit sermons preached twice a year to Acts 12:24 CDN so we can evaluate how Gospel is being preached

8. Agree to give a total of 10% of their budget each year to church planting after they become self-sustaining, with at least 4% of that being given to Acts 12:24 CDN for reinvestment in church planting. The church may keep up to 6% to reinvest in church planting locally. When a church joins Acts 12:24 Free Methodist Churches it will pay the conference Fair Share out of the 10%.

9. Until a church becomes self-supporting is should give an annual offering to Acts 12:24 CDN.

10. Agree to train new church planters and begin to reproduce new churches as soon as they become self-sustaining

11. All pastors and leaders will agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the expectations of Free Methodist Pastors as outlined in the Free Methodist Book of Discipline.



Note: This is an agreement to work together. It is not a legally binding contract. Acts 12:24 Church Development Network may choose to dissolve this relationship any time without cause.



“I have read this contract and have reviewed it with my leadership team and we agree to enter into this relationship with Acts 12:24 Church development Network.”




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Pastor




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Representative of Acts 12:24 Church Development Network




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