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In 2024, the Songwriting Initiative invited the BIC community to write and submit songs themed around our 10 Core Values. The initiative elicited 68 original songs from 49 different songwriters. From those submitted songs, some have been recorded and used in corporate worship…

We are excited to welcome 20 new congregations into Cohort B of the Thriving Congregations Initiative. The Initiative – designed to strengthen churches’ values, mission, and community – launched with Cohort A in 2024. As this first cohort moves to the next stage of the program…

In 2024, 17 congregations formed Cohort A of the Thriving Congregations Initiative, a program designed to strengthen churches’ values, mission, and community. “Priority 3 of Project 250 is to multiply ‘missional congregations, movements, and leaders,’” says Bishop Lynn Thrush of the Great Lakes Conference…

The 10 Core Values of Brethren in Christ U.S. were the central focus of the 2024 Songwriting Initiative, designed to strengthen community and creativity across the denomination. The initiative ran from August to October last year in conjunction with the release of the Core Values book Compelling Convictions and Project 250’s first priority…

A recent gathering brought together representatives from across the country to renew the denomination’s focus on church planting. This coincides with priority three of Project 250 which aims to multiply missional congregations, movements, and leaders The gathering – which took place in Kansas City…

BIC communities look different and face new challenges in the twenty-first century than they did even a generation ago. Today, BIC churches in the United States are found in rural, suburban, and urban contexts, with members from many cultural backgrounds and languages…

A worldwide pandemic, dynamic social shifts, the ongoing decline of the Western church, vast advances in technology – much has changed in the twenty years since Brethren in Christ U.S. first identified its ten core values. Considering such shifts, are these values merely slogans…

We are thrilled to announce the members in Cohort A of the Thriving Congregations Initiative. Over the next three years, twenty-one congregations from four conferences (listed below) will address the changing context of congregational life and develop clear values and mission unique to their assets and community needs…

General Conference of the Brethren in Christ (Brethren in Christ U.S.) has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish The Thriving Congregations Initiative. The project is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to encourage the flourishing of congregations by helping them deepen their relationships with God…

We go to all the world, his kingdom hope unfurled. No other name has power to save but Jesus Christ the Lord. This stirring refrain from the hymn “Facing a Task Unfinished” closed Alan Robinson’s National Director’s Report to the 2018 General Assembly…