At its April 2008 meeting, the General Board called into being a Mission Alignment Coordinating Council (MACC) to lead us in imagining a church organized around our stated mission priorities. In order to engage the Mission Alignment conversation, the MACC offers the following examples of how Disciples in the early 21st Century might be organized to accomplish our priorities of 1,000 new congregations, 1,000 transformed congregations, leadership development to serve these congregations, and our pro-reconciliation/anti-racism initiative.
The following documents are PDF versions of the narrative above, including supporting diagrams.
* Working document in process - feedback and new ideas are invited.
Your comments, questions, suggestions, and ideas are requested. Please submit them to Newell Williams, Chair of the MACC and Moderator of the General Assembly at macc@ogmp.disciples.org.
For more information about the formation of the MACC and the work of the General Board, please read the most recent edition of Communique. [PDF]