Cooperative Ministries, Cooperative Parishes
List of cooperative ministries and cooperative parishes
Tell
us about your PC(USA)-related cooperative ministry.
What is cooperative ministry?
Cooperative Ministry is:
- A witness to our unity in Christ.
- A way for small congregations to
respond to God’s call for ministry in their community.
- A way for congregations to do ministry
that one congregation could not do alone.
- A multiple-staff model of ministry
that shares ministry among a team of persons with different
gifts.
- A model that draws upon the gifts
of all of God’s people for ministry.
- A covenantal style of ministry.
Different configurations of cooperative
ministries
There are many different configurations
of cooperative ministries including:
- three or more PC(USA) congregations;
- PC(USA) congregations in cooperative
ministry with churches of other denominations;
- rural parishes;
- urban clusters;
- small congregations and middle-sized
congregations sharing ministry together;
- or ministries staffed by ministers,
CLPs, educators, interns or volunteers.
Resources
Cooperative Parish Manual
Gives help to presbyteries starting cooperative
ministries, with background information and a theological basis
for cooperative ministry.
$3.00 Item # 30593921
Building Your Own Model for Cooperative Ministry
 Contains
background information about cooperative ministry as well as
series of Bible studies that have been used to help develop
cooperative ministries among churches.
$3.00 Item # 30593923
From Princeton Theological Seminary
Ministry in the North Country; Making a Difference,
Church
and Community Ministry Series Tape #10, Princeton Theological
Seminary
Building
Church and Community Ministries, Carl Geores, Princeton
Theological Seminary |
