Mission Priorities 

PRIORITIES FOR THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21st CENTURY

1.

Re-juvinating Pastoral Ministry :
 
(a) To rediscover the identity and unity of CNI.
(b) To build worshipping communities with adequate pastoral care.
(c) To mobilize resources for support of Presbyters in the dioceses.
(d) To develop alternate form of ministry.
2. Evangelism within and without for costly discipleship :
 
(a) Spiritual revival within worshipping communities.
(b) Embodying and exhibiting exemplary life-style.
(c) To become a missionary congregation.
3. Re-structuring the structure :
 
(a)

To recapitulate and implement the voice of people expressed through different Commissions, Boards for re-visioning episcopacy, revising Constitution and decentralizing administration.

(b) Ensuring transparency and accountability in all levels.
4. Ministry of Service :
 

To help the marginalized communities for access to service : education, social and health care through different wings and institutions of CNI Synod and the Dioceses.

5. Solidarity with subaltern :
 

To express our solidarity in concrete acts with the subaltern : Women, Children, Differently able, Elderly, Tribal and Dalits.

6. Healing Communities :
 

To create healing communities through inter-faith and intra-faith initiative for common action.

7. Equipping God's People for Participatory Learning Process :
 
(a) To reaffirm and reformulate theological education for ministerial formation.
(b) To train the laity for ministry of witness and service.
(c) To facilitate ongoing in-service training.