
Love and expand your community.
OUTREACH
“My desire is that our neighborhoods experience the love of God as we live and serve among them, building relationships, meeting needs, and empowering them to live within their God-given potential - that the world will taste and see the love of God.”
ANNETTE MONDRAGON
NEI CoRE Team Outreach Director
Bridge of Grace (Fort Wayne, IN)
OUTREACH
“EQUIPPING AND RESOURCING TO LOVE AND EXPAND OUR COMMUNITIES.”
It’s been nearly 60 years since the last Great Awakening.
While 60% of Americans claim to be Protestant, and 74% believe in God, only 30% attend church regularly, and 30% have no affiliation to a faith organization at all. 9,000 - 20,000 churches are projected to close in the next 10 years, depending on which study you read.
This sounds terrible — but while people are disengaging from the institution of Church, they are open to and longing for relationship with God.
What if the Church returned to being a people on the move, outside the walls of a building and in the streets of our city?
What if we can reimagine how we do Church, how we encounter and interact with our neighbors so that we draw them into the Kingdom of God through outreach that loves and expands our communities?
What if we can think outside the box and come up with new ways to network, connect, and serve our neighbors? Not more programs, but freedom to connect neighbors to our faith communities so they can encounter Jesus.
Our goal is to give you resources you can use to reach the people in your community that God has called you to reach. Let’s together bring our hearts back to Christ, with new ways of engaging our community with God’s imagination for what the Church can be.
Let’s partner with God to usher in a physical & spiritual resurgence for the Kingdom of God in our neighborhoods.
OUTREACH COHORTS
Does your church excel at loving and expanding your community? Do you want to share some of your strategies, experiences, wisdom, and resources in a group of like-minded Nazarene pastors?
Apply for the CoRE team and check out the Outreach Cohort!
OUTREACH RESOURCES
WE HAVE GATHERED SOME GREAT RESOURCES TO HELP YOUR CHURCH
FACILITATE GREATER OUTREACH IN YOUR CONGREGATION!