They began thinking of themselves
as a service organization intended
to support the work of mission at
all levels of the Church – congregational, diocesan, and church wide –
and in that spirit they began to refer
to themselves as the Missionary
Society. My experience of these
dedicated servants is that is that
they give of themselves sacrificially
to advance God’s mission
in The Episcopal Church.
To that end, the Missionary Society,
in collaboration with the Executive
Council, has sought to implement
the mission plan contained in the
churchwide budget. This is especially true of the creative initiatives
that were a hallmark of the Five
Marks of Mission budget:
• Mark 1: To Proclaim the Good
News of the Kingdom – leveraging churchwide resources with
local resources to start new
congregations, both traditional
and nontraditional, including
multicultural and underserved
communities
• Mark 2: To Teach, Baptize,
and Nurture New Believers –
advancing Province IX’s plan for
self-sustainability and freedom
from dependence
• Mark 3: To Respond to Human
Need by Loving Servic