The Pacific Mountain Regional Council is now accepting applications for its Mission Support Grants 2025.
Mission Support Grants are intended for ministries and communities of faith that are living out regional priorities. The named priorities for Pacific Mountain Regional Council are:
- Identity: Reconciling, Affirming, Anti-Racist
The Pacific Mountain Regional Council has already made significant steps in re-shaping the identity of the denomination within its bounds. We continue in the work begun with an apology to the first peoples of our region in 1986, to continue the identity shifting work of reconciliation. We have developed policy stating we would be an anti-racist regional council. We have decided to follow a process to discern the decision to become an Affirming Ministry of the denomination. - Healthy Communities of Faith
The Executive has come to believe that when communities of faith are healthy, the whole church is healthy. Communities of faith and congregations are the place where our identity as a reconciling, affirming, and anti-racist church is lived out. Communities of faith and congregations are where our response to an encounter with the living Christ is practiced regularly – in worship, in prayer, in scripture study, in justice making and mending the world, in whole life stewardship. Because we also recognize that leaders play an important role in Communities of Faith, we will continue to invest in, and support Leadership development work in the Region. - First Third Ministry
The denomination’s age demographic is weighted heavily in the Baby Boomer and older age groups. In this reality, there is no substantive succession plan in all aspects of church life, threatening the church’s call to proclaim the gospel as we understand it. The denomination’s lack of attention and focus on the first third demographic is systemic, from early childhood development, through discipleship formation, through ministry leadership development. As a result, this priority needs to be addressed at every level of regional council work.
Applications will be accepted until November 15th, 2024.
The application form can be found here: Word Doc Details & Application Form
If you have any questions regarding the application, please email Mauricio Araujo.