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Mission Enhancements: Process & Links

With the up coming goal of 75 Mission Enhancements, this webpage can serve as a way to understand the process and list out links to the required documentation.

What is a Mission Enhancement?

A congregation or ministry group has seen a need to enhance its ministry program to reach more lost souls.   Plans have been developed and the congregation or group has committed personnel and financial resources to the program.  However, the local financial resources are not enough to permit the plan to succeed.  With the approval of the DMB, plans and financial needs are submitted to the Board for Home Missions (BHM).  If approved by the BHM, financial resources are approved for a limited time.  The limited funding will normally be for 2-4 years.  

Over the past 10 years, enhancements have assisted congregation locations to:

  • Work to expand Hispanic ministry
  • Expand other cross-cultural ministry
  • Have an additional staff member to reach out to school choice families as well as visiting members
  • Help outreach where congregation’s early childhood was booming and became a 2nd worship site
  • Help a struggling church to be able to afford and pay a full-time pastor and work toward the church once again funding the called workers (In cases like this, the Mission Board assess if if the mission mindset has been lost or not, and if the situation is more of survival the reach the lost ministry.)
  • Where a ministry was doing very well and just needed some assistance to be able to afford the 2nd staff person to address all the opportunities
  • Help congregation which was looking to expand its campus ministry. 

Mission Enhancement Criteria & Questions

Attached is the formal list of Enhancement criteria and the key Enhancement questions which can be downloaded.

2023-enhancement-criteraDownload
2024 Enhancement Questions for BHMDownload

What needs to be submitted for a Mission Enhancement?

1.) BIR – Basic Information & Request Form

2.) Enhancement Questions (See download document above)

3.) Financial Plans (fiscal year and the two following fiscal years)

4.) Cover Letter (from the DMB giving clear rationale for the years requested as well as the amount of subsidy requested.)

5.) DMB Evaluation Form

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