Ministry Teams

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Team Leaders

Eric Williams Pastor Calvary Temple Baptist Church Kansas City, MO

Bob Spradling Pastor Maywood B.C. Independence, MO

The ACT (Assisting Community Transformation Team may have one of the most challenging tasks of all our teams. They seek to imact our communities in a way that improves the lives of our neighbors and share the gospel as opportunities arise. Join them as they try to improve our communities to benefit "even the least of these..."

Goal: Increase the educational progress for children within our Association’s borders.

Action Plans:

1. Minister through the Adopt-A-School Program Publicize the work and purpose of the Adopt-a-School program.
2. Encourage local churches to adopt a school in their community.
3. Provide tutors for after-school and summer program sites.

Goal: Build relationships between cooperating churches and partnership ministries to share resources.

Action Plans:

1. Create networks of leaders.
2. Provide ongoing equipping events
3. Connect these churches with groups that can use their facilities for ministry.
4. Locate ministries that are providing innovative programming and encourage cooperating churches to partner with them.

Goal: Assist congregations providing innovative programming aimed at significant community issues (i.e. chronic disease, violence, health, homelessness, pregnancy prevention).

Action Plans:

1. Gather needs of churches that are providing needed services and publish them.
2. Gather resource list from churches with resources to help and publish them.
3. Help connect churches with resources to churches providing services.
4. Encourage opportunities for pastors of churches that are providing services to speak to congregations who might provide assistance.

Goal: Mobilize Baptists to act together to effect change in governmental affairs for causes that are for the transformation of the community.

Action Plans:

1. Compile e-mail/telephone lists for quick responses to emergency needs.
2. Develop educational forums that encourage civil discussion regarding emerging needs.
3. Develop a team to discuss issues that are unifying and important to cooperating churches.

Goal: Assist congregations in helping their membership become gainfully employed.

Action Plans:

1. Create a pool of people with skills who are seeking employment.
2. Compile a list of members in cooperating churches who make employment decisions, and ask for a commitment to hire qualified applicants from pool.
3. Provide employment fairs which include workshops.