What is a New Ministry?
LCMC's first New Ministry Workshop was held on October 5-6, 2011 at Zion Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Attenders of this workshop, people involved in a variety of types of new ministries, worked together to create a list of the various types of new ministries.
Overall, there are nine types of new ministries:
- Plant: A church planted in a given area because of a lack of presence of the Gospel and initiated by another congregation, district or church organization.
- Epiphany: A church started by a group of people from one church who left because they saw the truth and the truth set them free.
- Epiphany B: A church started by a group of people from one church who left because they saw the truth, and then called the pastor from the previous church to serve the new church, and now both the previous and the new church remain in the same community.
- Affinity: A church started by groups of people from multiple churches who left because they saw the truth and the truth set them free.
- Remnant: A church that is made up of a small group of people who once were a larger group of people.
- Cell: A church made up of small cell groups connected by common pastoral leadership or practice.
- House: A church that meets regularly in a home and part of a network, with or without a pastor.
- Organic: A church that comes together through common connections and pulled together by the Holy Spirit, with or without a pastor, or a connection to a larger group or association.
- Daughter: A church started by a congregation seeking to plant a church but with their own members and supported through their own resources.
