• Section 1. Mission statement: The mission of the Network is to encourage, promote and serve bivocational and smaller membership ministers and their families as they do whatever it takes in Christ’s kingdom service within local congregations, communities, and to the ends of the world.
  • Section 2. Network Objectives: The Network commits itself to strategic objectives in order to fulfill its mission, including the following seven, and those that may be determined:
    1. National Network: To sustain and work with a national network including its own distinctive Website and organization, as well as the vast resources within the Southern Baptist family.
    2. Ministry Encouragement: To provide encouragement and affirmation for pastors, other ministers, and their families as they make outstanding contributions to Kingdom work.
    3. Informed Advocacy: To develop, publish, and promote the biblical basis, contemporary reality, and strategic value of bivocational and smaller membership churches.
    4. Vocational Identity: To identify and call into supportive fellowship pastors and other ministers who want to become part of, this vital segment of the Southern Baptist family.
    5. Ministry Teams: To establish and maintain ministry teams and groups to address the ministry challenges and opportunities of bivocational and smaller membership churches.
    6. Leadership Development: To provide for ministers and teams a network of ministry and leadership training resources which are biblical, practical, accessible, and affordable.
    7. Expanded Ministry: To expand this ministry to and through bivocational and smaller membership ministers and their congregations:
      • - by enlarging their participation in this Network and within the Southern Baptist family;
      • - by securing and investing greater mission resources from the Southern Baptist family;
      • - by encouraging young men and women and second-career persons to prepare themselves for intentional service within these congregations;
      • - by linking these ministers to efforts in planting new missions and churches;
      • - by connecting ministers to second vocational opportunities for financial support.
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