Center for Missional Excellence
The purpose of the Center for Missional Excellence is to provide and equip leaders, clergy and lay who carry forth ministries of mercy, justice, and wholeness so that all persons, inside and outside the church, experience mercy, justice, and wholeness: emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually.
The follow ing ministries fall in this category:
- Social Principles Implementation Ministries - to pursue implementation of the social principles of the United Methodist Church, justice concerns, and other policy statements on Christian social concerns of the Texas Annual Conference of the UMC
- Mercy Ministries - to represent the health and welfare related institutions: Methodist Mission Home Methodist Children’s Home, Methodist Retirement Communities, Methodist Healthcare System, Parish and Community Development, Health and Welfare/Golden Cross, Substance Abuse, Healthcare Issues, and Society of St. Stephen and to train and equip clergy, laity, and local churches of the conference to do these ministries in the parishes and districts.
- Higher Education and Campus Ministries - to increase fruitfulness, to set measurable standards for effective campus ministries, to increase awareness of call to ordained ministry and church vocations and to comprehensively identify and propose remedies to systematic issues hindering access to and successful pursuit of higher education
- Sending Ministries - to connect and equip congregations for outreach ministry in the local communities in the Annual Conference, and around the world and to work with disaster response inside and outside our Annual Conference
- Restorative Justice Ministries - to serve as an advocate for change by connecting and equipping churches and individuals to minister to those incarcerated, their families, justice workers, and victims while working to improve re-entry ministries for offenders and their families
- Missional Excellence Leadership Team – to develop strategies and organizational recommendations which facilitate the work of the Center for Missional Excellence
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