Northern Illinois Conference seeks to yield to God’s leading: 2024 Conference Summary
Observing a Wesleyan spiritual practice rather rallying around a slogan, members of the 2024 session of the Northern Illinois Conference o…
The Annual Conference Shepherding Team aids the Northern Illinois Conference in coordinating the work of the conference ministry areas and advancing the conference's stated goals.
ACST's Role:
The Annual Conference Shepherding Team was created to advance the overall mission of the Northern Illinois Conference by ensuring the proper use and alignment of resources to achieve it. The ACST serves as a place for consultation, advice, and decision-making, and provides connections between conference administrative and ministry areas, the cabinet, District Shepherding Teams, and local churches. It serves to build trust, collaboration, and accountability in the conference’s responsibility to live out its mission.
Specifically, the ACST is:
(Approved March 7, 2024)
District Shepherding Teams
Directed by the ACST, these teams coordinate the equipping of local churches so that they might be faithful, Christ-centered communities of worship, prayer, witness and change and enhance the connection between local churches, the districts, and the NIC.
Membership
Co-Chairs: Mark Manzi and Rev. KyungHae Anna Shin
Members of the team include lay and clergy from various NIC ministry areas and districts.
NIC's Goals, as Approved at the 2019 Annual Conference Session:
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