What is a 6261 Ministry Community?
The goal is that each 6261 Ministry Community will be bound together in common life, ministry, and mission. For many, this is a cultural, paradigm shift. Leaders work in co-partnership with one another and across the 6 congregations for the purpose of deeply rooted, shared ministry within the community.
Whether you are a congregation interested in learning more or joining a 6261 Ministry Community; a pastor or deacon discerning a call to a 6261 Ministry Community; or a lay minister sensing a vocation to serve in a 6261 Ministry Community - this is the place to start!
Congregations
Each 6261 Ministry Community will be comprised of 6 congregations
CONGREGATIONS
Pastors and Deacons
There will be 2 full-time pastors and 1 deacon serving each 6261 Ministry Community
ROSTERED MINISTERS
Lay Leaders
Each congregation will uplift a lay minister so that there will be 6 serving the 6261 Ministry Community
LAY MINISTERS
6261 Ministry Projects
Each 6261 Ministry Community will be formed around a primary ministry project. This might look like healing the hurts by addressing issues of poverty, mental health, food insecurity, affordable housing, or racial inequities. It might mean engaging the stranger by focusing on truly welcoming young people, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ communities. It might involve loving the land by working on green initiatives, reducing our waste as congregational institutions and as individuals, or by connecting our rural communities with more creation-friendly methods of farming. Whatever the passion and contextual need, a 6261 Ministry Community can commit to this profound work for the sake of the Gospel and one another.
