What does it take to Invite, Form, Send and Serve in urban centers?

• A staff officer for urban ministry development has been hired who serves as a senior-level advocate, resource and facilitator for urban congregational development and clergy deployment/support
• Equip urban congregations to engage in mutual relationships with representatives of the global community who now live in their midst
• Create a $15-million fund to support mission-specific capital expenses so to create 21st-century centers for mission and ministry
  from 19th-century urban churches
• Recruit and train lay and ordained leaders for urban congregations, including sending clergy Urban Residents to 10 congregations over 10 years
• Plant eight new congregations of the unchurched, new immigrants, seekers and young adults
• Identify creative ministry models and pursue possibilities for implementation
• Work together as a diocese to address issues of social and economic justice that disproportionately affect urban centers in the church, as well as the
  world
• Develop an urban training center for encounter, enrichment, education and engagement that employs and enhances the gifts of lay and clergy leaders for transformative ministry
• Establish meaningful, mutual partnerships among congregations and/or community organizations that respect the presence, voice and power of all partners.