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 OUR MISSION

Empowering congregations
to effectively share Christ's ministry with the world

We Are
14 Established Congregations 
2 Congregations in Formation
1,168 Participating Members
23 Ministers with Standing
1 Regional Minister
3 Part-time support staff
Many volunteers in Leadership

Serving Christ in
Billings                                 Bozeman
Butte                                     Miles City
Great Falls                          Hamilton
Helena                                 Joliet
Kalispell                               Whitefish
Whitehall                              Missoula
Lincoln                                  Polson

 

                                              OUR MINISTRIES:

Supporting Congregations

  • Facilitating planning and visioning
  • Offering pastoral care, support and coaching
  • Teaching conflict management skills

Empowering Leaders

  • Providing workshops to train congregational leaders
  • Resourcing congregations
  • Helping congregations network with one another

Strengthening Ministry

  • Walking with congregations through the process of calling a new minister
  • Licensing, ordaining, and maintaining the standing of ministers
  • Encouraging pastors to attend support groups, retreats, and educational events

Growing Faithful Disciples

  • Offering camps and conferences for young people
  • Supporting youth ministries
  • Sustaining ministries for men and women

Reaching Out to Others

  • Establishing new churches
  • Working to eradicate racism
  • Sharing in Mission through projects, work trips and ecumenical partnerships
        

The Regional Church is a Part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

     The Christian Church (Disciples of Chlrist) is a community of believers who through baptism into Jesus Christ are bound by covenant to God and one another.  Disciples draw their inspiration from Scripture and the Holy Spirit, celebrating around the Lord's Table the life, death and resurrection, and continuing presence of Christ.  They proclaim the Good News of salvation and claim as their particular mission the quest for Christian unity.  While stressing freedom and diversity under God, they believe unity and mission are inseparable, and witness and serve among the whole human family in the interest of peace, justice, mercy and kindness.

The Regional Church is Relationships                                                                                            
     As members of the Regional staff get to know congregations in the Region over time, as they listen to the hopes and dreams, the frustrations and fears of those churches, they are better able to offer resources to address particular needs.  As they get a "bird's eye view" of the Regional Church through their travels, they can help congregations network with each other around common ministries.  As they identify shared issues, they can provide the needed training and support for congregational leaders.
     As lay leaders and pastors get acquainted with those from other congregations around the Region, as they join together for education and worship at Regional events, they build community with one another offering support, encouragement and commitment to do together those ministries that they cannot do alone.

 
The Regional Church is Support

     The Regional Minister is a pastor to pastors, providing coaching and a listening ear.  In times of death, conflict, and congregational crisis, the Regional staff is present.  Support groups for pastors, retreats, and educational events provided by the Regional Church sustain leaders for the work of ministry.
     The Regional Church also provides for congregations through ministries of oversight and accountability,  interviewing students seeking ordination or licensing, and offering search committees the names of qualified ministers when they are seeking a new pastor.


The Regional Church is Celebration

     Regional publications share the good news of ministries within the Regional Church that are making a difference in peoples' lives.  New congregations are supported and encouraged.  Congregations in transition are given hope.
     Regional Assemblies provide opportunities for festive worship and great music.  Anniversaries, ordinations, and installations also provide opportunities to celebrate the work of the church and to renew commitment to mission.


The Regional Church is Challenge

     In these changing times, congregations often find themselves struggling to find new ways to speak and to minister in relevant ways in their communities.  During such transitions, the Regional Church can offer wisdom through mentoring, modeling, preaching, teaching, conflict management, and consultation.
     Through partnerships with ecumenical groups the Regional Church acts for justice.  Through mission projects, the Regional Church makes a real difference in the lives of those in need.  Through anti-racism initiatives, the Regional Church calls itself to make necessary changes in its own life and work.