The Wesleyan Covenant Association of MO
What About Our Building and Assets?
Consider Church Planting
Read about Church Planting and Alternative Worship Plans
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Find out more at missouriwca@gmail.com
Friends,
The Heartland Conference of the Global Methodist Church is working diligently to resource clergy and laity in MO to serve in GMCs, as you discern the Holy Spirit's direction for your congregation and ministry. First, we advise you to check out the REVIVE Initiative Resources tab above for help. Respectfully contact your UMC Conference Office and ask if there are further opportunities to depart peacefully, especially if you were encouraged to wait until 2024. (It is 2024). Find out if there are further opportunities to do as your church, chooses. There may still be opportunities.
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And sadly, there will be those members or congregations who will lose their heritage buildings in the UMC split. If you are displaced, and would like to speak about rebuilding your congregation and/or its worship site, or even forming a new one, particularly in the Global Methodist Church, contact us at www.missouriwca@gmail.com for information about coaching to plant a new church. We do not believe your ministry must be derailed.
Training is available, and will benefit those who are looking to plant new churches as well as all who are ready to re-vision faithful, Spirit filled ministry in your local congregation.
This training is developed by The River Network especially for the Global Methodist Church. If you are not yet certain that the GMC is the right fit for you or your congregation, we have already provided an opportunity to "come and see" as you fellowship and learn with GMC leaders and brothers and sisters in Christ, and certainly can provide those opportunities again, as interest becomes evident.
So what happens if you or your church find yourself without a building?
While that is not an inevitability, it may be a possibility. So...what next?
Let us introduce the idea of church planting Here:
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We will always encourage you to first, "Go Prayer, and Go Scripture" to answer any question. So let's start there.
What Scripture talks about planting:
Isaiah 61:3 says, “So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” A tree so planted will not fear when heat comes, it will not experience damage from the blazing heats of summer, its leaf remains green, and it will yield fruit in season.
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Matthew 28:18
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Matthew 18:20
New International Version
20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
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How will God lead you to plant? Talk to us and let's see the exciting possibilities as they unfold.
According to The United Methodist Church’s Book of Discipline, all local United Methodist churches hold their properties, real and personal, tangible and intangible, in trust for the benefit of the general church. Typically that means that if a local congregation decides to withdraw from the denomination, it must leave without its property unless it negotiates other arrangements with its annual conference. Some annual conferences have entered into such negotiations, while others have sought to enforce the trust clause by filing lawsuits in secular courts. The MO WCA can help you to locate guidance if you find yourself in need of how to take the next steps. But your worship and your discipleship and your participation in the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not state-dependent on a "brick-and-mortar" experience.
