Start your own chapter of Beaconchurches.

Begin with a comon statement of faith. Use the one on this site, or develop your own. (If you are going to call yourself a beacon church and have integrity, you should not oppose the statement of values on our site.)

Invite neighboring church pastors for lunch and ask three questions.

1. Do you have someone that your church has sent to a mission field outside of your own community?  (Is there a missionary from your church family?)

2. Do your church members participate in a mission field outside your community? (for instance, Samaritans purse, Angel tree, support for Murrow Indian Children's Home or Bethel Neighborhood Ministry)

3. What missions do  your church members engage within your community? (for instance, AWANA, food bank, CEF, prison ministry, Mother to Mother, Contagious Christian?)

 

When you have recorded  your list of missions, invite them back to see which missions overlap. Ask one question for every common Mission: Are there ways that we should work together?

 

You will find that in many cases the answer is no. But for those times when cooperation benefits the kingdom, covenant together to work with each other. For instance, (there are many great examples), take support of Murrow Indian Children's home. If you and five other churches each take a van load of supplies to Muskogee, wouldn't it make more sense to send one truck rather than five vans? And wouldn't it make more sense to have some organization of what you send? Imagine five van loads of toilet paper when what they need is a truck load of something else?

Now hold each other accountable for faith and practice and buiild the kingdom!