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A Testimony to God at Work
Building Christ's Church and God's Kingdom In Classis Atlantic Northeast (CANE)
Raising CANE can be
hard work!
But it has
sweet results !!
It takes team work
to bring in
the harvest
We are
yoked together as a TEAM
TEAM WORK
- be vulnerable - demand debate - go for clarity and closure - confront hard issues - focus on Godly outcomes together
TEAM WORK
The CMT discerns and follows the movement of God’s Spirit in the ministries of CANE, so
together
we are growing in Christ-likeness as we
minister
to the whole person and their local and global communities.
CMT’s DESIGN
The Classical Ministries Team (CMT) consists of four sub team leaders , the diaconal coordinator , and one Classical Interim Committee liaison person. The CMT designates its own officers and meets as often as necessary to do its work.
CMT’s PURPOSE
God’s Spirit enables CANE’s Classical Ministry Team (CMT) to discerningly
Christ follow
God’s intent and work in the ministries of Classis Atlantic Northeast. In the path of this obedience people and their communities broken by sin are
healed
through the power of God, who in Christ is reconciling the world to himself. And in this path God
forms us
in the likeness of who gave himself for the redemption of the world.
CMT’s VALUES
VITALITY DIVERSITY DISCOVERY
with VITALITY
As God sovereignly builds his kingdom, the Holy Spirit assigns specific leadership roles to a wide variety of people in CANE as his
life-giving
agents to equip them for ministry. When these assignments are eagerly welcomed and diligently worked at in a Christ like, servant manner as the Spirit provides direction, God uses them to bring LIFE.
in DIVERSITY
These leadership ministry assignments are diverse in nature, requiring the use of all the
variety of gifts
God has given all his
diverse people
work.
to accomplish God’s
at DISCOVERY
Leading God’s people is a constant adventure of
discovering
obediently what God is sovereignly doing, and
responding
to the new assignments the Holy Spirit gives.
TEAM WORK
Each of CMT’s 4 sub-teams works together in the spirit of interdependence in the spirit of these 3 values – VITALITY-DIVERSITY-DISCOVERY
TEAM WORK
Each sub-team’s focus is unique , yet all are intimately interrelated , demanding clear, frequent communication and creative synergy between the four team leaders.
TEAM WORK
Each of CMT’s 4 sub-teams has a corporate responsibility for all the work of the CMT.
TEAM WORK
Each of the CMT’s four sub-team’s incorporates in its work a deaconal component so that the ministries of CANE intentionally and effectively integrate God’s Word with their godly deeds.
TEAM WORK
Each of the four sub-teams leads in discerning and following the direction and work of God’s Spirit among us, so that the disciple-making multiplication mandate of the Great Commission and the which results from our obeying it may flourish.
THE FOUR TEAMS Church Planting & Development Mission – Focused Churches
Did you notice
the FIFTH OX?
More important than you may think!
Church Planting & Development Mission Focused Churches
Church Planting & Development Mission Focused Churches
The Four Ministry Teams
To redevelop Mission-Focused Churches by:
- Helping churches see & accept MFC their God-given opportunities. - Providing focus-sharpening training. - Facilitating the sharing of resources & ideas.
- Challenging, training, & assisting churhes to parent new ones.
The Four Ministry Teams
To empower Church Planting & Development by:
- Equipping, enlisting, & supporting our leaders & churches in understanding, celebrating, & creating new healthy, CPD MFC relevant, and holistic congregations.
- Planting at least one new church each year.
- Assisting churches which desire affiliation with the CRCNA toward a possible life together.
The Four Ministry Teams
To cultivate a Leadership Culture by:
I dentifying, recruiting, and resourcing persons with the spiritual gift of leadership.
- Promoting training conferences for all God’s people – local and regional. CPD LC - Providing training conferences for elders, deacons, & pastors at classis in such a way that recipients may pass it on in their local churches .
MFC - Providing “student fund” assistance creatively.
The Four Ministry Teams
To engender Communication and Prayer by:
Facilitating communication by LC creatively “getting the word out” what God is doing in & through his churches. CPD C/P MFC - Eliciting petitions & praise for classis-wide prayer.
- Providing training & encouragement in developing a deep life of prayer in the churches.
- Assisting the flow of information from CRC institutions & agencies, hi-lighting pivotal items.
The Four Ministry Teams
Bathed in
DIACONIA
Word and Deed ministry Elders, Deacons, Pastors, all people LC CPD MFC C/P
WORKING TOGETHER
TEAM WORK
Last, but far from least, are those essential to keep the wheels turning, so that the
HARVEST
is delivered where the rubber hits the road: our
Classical Interim Committee
,
Classical Treasurer
, and our
Stated Clerk.
C I C CT
Church Planting & Development
SC
is something can do But we are called to
cultivate & harvest!
is part of Classical Renewal and a Testimony to God at Work
not only In Classis Atlantic Northeast (CANE)
But it is spreading
throughout
The Christian Reformed Church
Classical Renewal
was a to bring us where we are
vehicle
GOD used