MISSION: Our mission is to love God, love people and make disciples.

VISION: Our vision is to bring wholeness to the world through healthy, biblical communities of holy people multiplying disciples, leaders, groups and churches.

FOCUS ON DISCIPLING AND SERVING We will place the same priority on

discipling and serving as we do on our services of worship. By valuing and measuring holiness, service and obedience, we will increase the fruitfulness of the good news in our communities.

EMPHASIZE CHURCH HEALTH We will work to improve

the health of every local church by creating measurable expectations and regular assessments. We will create and utilize training materials that focus on church health.

PARTNER WITH OTHERS We will encourage partnerships with

like-minded ministries. 7KHVH�PXWXDOO\�EHQHÀFLDO�UHODWLRQVKLSV�JLYH�XV�D�XQLÀHG�YRLFH�RQ�VRFLDO�DQG�VSLULWXDO�LVVXHV��DV�ZHOO�DV�PRUH�IRFXVHG�VNLOOV�WR�IXOÀOO�our mission and vision.

EMBRACE ALL PEOPLE We will improve

our reach to the poor and disenfranchised and create a normalcy for multicultural ministry by rewarding and celebrating churches that minister to the hurting, broken and people unlike themselves.

REWARD FRUITFULNESS

We will increase the number of growing and fruitful Free Methodist churches by encouraging and aiding successful leaders and their ministries. We will tell the story of these ministries to the rest of the denomination.

TRAIN AND DEVELOP LEADERS

We will raise up godly and competent leaders who support our vision and passionately make disciples. We will identify these leaders within our churches and provide opportunities for recruitment, internship and service.

COMMIT TO CITIES

We will increase Free Methodist church planting and ministry in U.S. urban centers, developing lasting ministries and local leaders that multiply themselves throughout our cities.

CONNECT THE GLOBAL CHURCH

We will increase the global and ORFDO�LQÁXHQFH�RI�our churches by encouraging engagement with worldwide ministries and helping churches to better impact their communities.

MULTIPLY MINISTRIES

We will increase multiplication of disciples, leaders, groups, churches and ministries by highlighting exemplary leaders and by changing the way our churches view and report growth.

STRATEGIES: How do we get there? How do we EHFRPH�D�FKXUFK�ÀOOHG�ZLWK�ZKROH�people, bringing wholeness to a broken and impoverished world in

the context of health, growth and multiplication? Our nine strategies are:

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THE CONNECTED PASTOR

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• I’m a minister facing new problems and exciting challenges every day.

• I have a limited budget and a constant need for experienced help.

• How do I take our Wesleyan Tradition and make it relevant to today's evangelicals?

• We are the pastors and staff that make the Free Methodist Church run.

• We’ve been there, experienced almost everything and are ready to help.

• Financial Resources

• Yearbook Redesign (statistics)

Our Pastors are not alone. They have thousands of mentors and “staff members” at their fingertips 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No need to repeat lessons that have already been learned.

FM Connect

• Accessibility

• Live Data

• Flexibility

• Integration

GOALS OF FM CONNECT

• Church & Conference Access to Current-Year & Contact Data

• Refocus on Current FMC Ministry Goals

• Direct Integration with Printed Yearbook

WHAT’S AVAILABLE NOW?

Enhanced Conference Oversight of Church Data

Previous-Year Reporting for Churches, Conferences

Integration with other FM Connect Tools: 

Credentialing

GC15

HR

WHAT’S NEXT?

DEMO

• Late Dec.: Annual Report information distributed

• Jan. 1: Annual Report system active

• Feb. 1: Churches finish entering stats & updating contact info

• Mar 1: Conferences complete review of data entered by churches

• May-July: Conferences update info following Annual Conferences

• Aug: Final edits & layout

• Sept. 1: Yearbook finalized for production

• Mid-Oct.: Yearbook published & available for distribution!

ANNUAL REPORTS

• Rollout in December

• Disseminate Annual Report details

• Discussions

• Calendar

• File storage, sharing & commenting

CONFERENCE TEAMS

DISCUSSION

SHARED DOCUMENTS

SHARED CALENDARS

SUPPORT

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