Resources
Job Opportunities
Missional
Emerging Communities of Faith Grant
Missional Discipleship Initiative
Peace and Justice Support Network
Responding to Military Recruitment
Laboring Toward Wholeness – A Training on Dismantling Patriarchy
Through this training, leaders explore the history and roots of patriarchy and how it got entangled with our faith, the church’s role in perpetuating it as well as our responsibility to dismantle it.
Pastors
Congregations
Ministry Transitions – Candidate Version – This packet is for persons who are seeking new places of ministry, for those seeking placement for the first time; or for those who are considering being credentialed.
Ministry Transitions – Search Committee Version – This packet is requested by search committees who are looking for a new pastor. This is designed to help them discern if they need a transitional pastor, or what next steps they need to take to have a successful pastorate.
Pastor Congregation Evaluations – This packet is a spin-off of the PCRC packet and is targeted for the pastor review and evaluation process.
Pastor Congregation Relations – This packet addresses the relationship between the pastor and the congregation. It includes a pastor’s job description, as well as the responsibilities of the pastor congregation relations committee, negotiating the pastor’s salary, and addresses sabbatical and study leaves.
Ministerial Credentialing – This packet is called for by the area conference or congregation. Ministerial Credentialing works with the preparation of the pastor’s journey of credentialing, whether it is the process of licensing or ordination.
Sexual Misconduct – This packet gives congregations a resource for how to deal with accusations of sexual abuse and what steps they can take to deal with it; as well as guidelines for accountability groups.
Resources for Congregational Treasurers We have many tools to help keep congregational treasurer’s equipped. Check out the following:
- Sample guidelines and policies for church treasurers
- Sample job descriptions
Ministry Inquiry Program
Women in Leadership
Women in Leadership (WiL) works to dismantle patriarchal systems in Mennonite Church USA by empowering women to live out the call of God on their lives, increase their capacities, and contribute their wisdom in congregations, area conferences, agencies and institutions.
It creates space for resources, conversation and action for all women in our churches who are in leadership. Learn more
Worship and Christian Formation
Anabaptist Faith Formation
Spiritual Direction
MC USA Spiritual Directors List
Great Lakes Regional Mennonite Spiritual Directors has an active Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/
Other Worship Resources
Worship, Technology and the Shape of the Church – Video
A conversation for church leaders focusing on the changes in church life brought about by the pandemic, the use of hybrid worship, and other technologies.
Music – Voices Together Resources
Bread Making Meditation for Congregations
Singing Salvation Story – Heilsgeschite in Song (Word doc)
Singing Salvation Story – Heilsgeschite in Song (pdf)
Study Resources
Journeys with God: a biblical curriculum from MEA. The aim of the curriculum is to invite children to become part of the biblical story. Listening to and participating in the stories of God’s people helps children build a firm foundation for faithful living as they move from shared/experiential faith toward a more mature and owned faith. The curriculum is designed to help children gain a sense of the Bible as a whole and how the Biblical narrative interacts with their lives.
Radical Hospitality: Responding to the Issue of Immigration – Bible study from MC USA
KNOWING CHRIST’S LOVE. . .ANSWERING GOD’S CALL
Vision Statement
God calls us to be followers of Jesus Christ, and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to grow as communities of grace, joy and peace, so that God’s healing and hope flow through us to the world.
Mission Statement
The mission of Central District Conference is to know Christ’s abundant love in who we are and how we live, and to answer God’s persistent call to share that love with one another and the world by:
- Promoting a Christ-like community of hospitality where grace-filled relationships flourish, and patience and generosity are practiced,
- Calling and nurturing wise, dynamic and compassionate Anabaptist leadership,
- Supporting missional partnerships that make God’s reign visible and fostering ministries of evangelism, healing and hope.