Prayer and Fasting Requested for Unity and Cooperation on November 1
November 1 is the due date to submit proposals to the Brotherhood Cooperation Proposal Group. See the previous story and details published on DisciplesToday.net: Process: We request that all...
View ArticleHyper – Autonomy: Abandoning Independence for Interdependence
In the next month or so, a Unity Proposal will be presented for consideration by the brotherhood of churches known as the International Churches of Christ. It seemed necessary to send out an article...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers
Related to the 2006 Plan for United Cooperation 1. Why do we need a statement of belief? The use of belief statements can be both positive and negative, but our heritage tends to focus on the...
View ArticleEffective Leadership
For the past three years, most of our churches have taken painstaking and sober inventory of our past leadership deficiencies and failures, striving in general to replace hyper-authority, over-control,...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening Lately with the Unity Proposal?
Many have lost track of the proposal. Here’s my take on the last 24 months. Mike Taliaferro — San Antonio, Texas It was two years ago that nine brothers were asked in Seattle to pen a Unity Proposal....
View ArticleNew Service Committees and Leadership Conference Dates Announced
"The church sent the delegates . . . " Acts 15:3 NLT Dear brothers and sisters, This past year has been an exciting and productive one for our cooperating churches. More and more congregations are...
View ArticleCooperation Proposal Revisited
About a year and a half ago, Steve Staten and I co-authored an article entitled “Observations Regarding the Unity Proposal.” It was a combination of a letter I had written to answer questions about the...
View ArticleMore Commitments to Co-operation Churches from Six Countries
Eight more churches from six countries have committed to working together. These are the most recent churches to commit to the Co-operation Churches. Banjul Christian Church — The Gambia, Africa...
View ArticleCooperation Service Team Report
This is the first quarterly report from the Cooperation Service Team that was appointed at the Delegates meeting at the recent International Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California . I am finding...
View ArticleWomen’s Ministry Service Team
Robyn Williams proposed some kind of opportunity for various women to come together to discuss women’s issues. In order to offset the financial issue for the churches, the team would encourage women...
View ArticleCommunication and Administration Service Team
The new DisciplesToday.org website was released on December 1st and has technology for translation into eight languages. In November Mike Taliaferro and Mike Fontenot sent letters requesting churches...
View ArticleShepherding Service Team
This team is beginning with two missions. First, the formulation and development of sound conflict resolution paradigm is needed for leaders and churches. This will include input from trained...
View ArticleChurch-Builders Service Team
While only the chairmen of all the other teams were appointed in October, the Delegates selected all of the members of this Service Team. They already met with an ad-hoc group of evangelists from...
View ArticleMinistry Education and Teaching Service Team
The first phase is to develop more ministry education among our churches. Six of the eight members of our team will focus on comparing notes from our main education efforts around the churches. We hope...
View ArticleYouth & Family Service Team
This year we are encouraging Youth Leader meetings to be held regionally on every continent where possible. The development of a resource website for youth workers is in the works as well as a...
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Update from HOPE worldwide and Benevolence Service Team
Robert Gempel noted in one discussion, “HOPE worldwide desperately needs the input of the churches as we move forward.” This is a little update on what we have been doing so far, as well as results of...
View ArticleThe Healthy Body of Christ
“After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church.” —Ephesians 5:29 “But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay...
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You Are Invited to the 2008 International Leadership Conference in Kiev, Ukraine
On behalf of your brothers and sisters from Europe and Eurasia, we invite you to come and worship God and train together before Him, to reach the edges of the earth with the Gospel! Click here for the...
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Shepherding Service Team Update
The newly formed Shepherding Service Team targets needs to develop more relationships, more elders and help with conflict resolution. At the 2007 International Leadership Conference in Los Angeles the...
View ArticleInterrelation and Interdependence of the New Testament Church
Unity – John 17:20-21 – “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in...
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