Marian Carruth is the Faith Community and New Church Development Action Team leader. Contact her at mscarruth@aol.com.

 

The Faith Community and New Church Development Action Team is charged with the responsibility of working with the Bishop and Cabinet to launch new faith communities aimed at reaching people for Christ and producing authentic Christian disciples. Marian Carruth is the Action Team Leader.

 

A faith community is defined as "a worship experience linked to a discipling system."   Our goal over this Quadrennium (2009-2012) is to launch fifty new, vibrant, diverse faith communities across the Annual Conference.   To achieve this goal, a combined effort of Conference leadership and local churches to multiply new ministries will be necessary.  

 

The primary role of the Action Team is to identify, assess, equip, deploy and coach both clergy and lay church planters who have the passion,  spiritual gifts and maturity to launch healthy new faith communities.   Our goal is to identify, nurture and deploy individuals suited to  this very important “apostolic” work.  Ultimately, the goal

of the team will be creating a culture of growth through multiplication of new faith communities in an effort to produce a whole new generation of healthy, growing and fruitful congregations.

 

For more extensive information about church planting in the United Methodist Church, please click on the links below:

 

Participants on the Conference Action Team include: 

Director of Connectional Ministries and New Church Development, Chair

Dean of the Cabinet

Three former Church Planters

District Faith Community Development Lay Representatives

Demographic Resource Person(s)

“Memphis Missionary Movement” Team Trainers

C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Representative

At-large Members

Director of Urban and Holistic Ministries, Ex Officio