Our Work

Christ-Centered Discernment

We engage in careful and disciplined discernment regarding the doctrine, structure, and practices of the Church. Our aim is not innovation for its own sake, but the faithful continuation, renewing, and strengthening of the Moravian Church — ensuring that its life, leadership, and witness remain clearly aligned with the authority of Scripture and the principles and example of Christ.

Congregational Growth and Strategic Realignment

The Consortium will assemble a team of experienced clergy, business leaders, and strategic advisors to assist congregations in assessing growth opportunities and long-term sustainability.

This team will provide:

• Comprehensive growth assessments
• Strategic planning and leadership coaching
• Stewardship evaluations of facilities and financial health
• Support for partnership, consolidation, or realignment decisions

We affirm that strategic consolidation, when prayerfully and locally discerned, can increase vitality rather than diminish it. Combining resources, leadership, and congregational strength can create renewed momentum, expanded ministry capacity, and measurable growth in both discipleship and outreach.

At times, responsible closure or merger is not retreat, but multiplication — freeing financial, human, and property resources to strengthen healthier congregations, launch new initiatives, and advance mission more effectively.

Faithfulness requires courage. Strategic realignment, when undertaken intentionally and guided by Christ, can be one of the most powerful growth strategies available to the Church.

Youth and Next-Generation Formation

The future of the Church depends upon the formation of its young people. The Consortium is committed to strengthening youth programs, expanding educational and mentorship opportunities, and cultivating leadership pathways for the next generation.

Moravian camps play a vital role in spiritual formation. We are committed to supporting their growth, enhancing facilities, expanding programming, and ensuring their long-term sustainability as centers of faith, fellowship, and renewal.

Leadership Identification and Development

The future of the Moravian Church depends upon the intentional recognition and cultivation of gifted leaders. The Consortium seeks to help congregations identify emerging clergy and lay leaders early, develop their gifts deliberately, and create clear pathways into meaningful service.

Leadership should not be left to chance. It must be encouraged, formed, and supported with clarity and courage.

Seminary and Ordination Alignment

Theological education and ministerial formation are central to the Church’s vitality. The sustainability, accessibility, and effectiveness of our seminary and ordination processes deserve careful and honest attention.

As congregational realities shift and other Moravian provinces around the world experience growth, it is prudent to examine how leaders are identified, formed, and deployed. The Consortium is committed to engaging in thoughtful evaluation of our current systems to ensure they are:

• Biblically grounded
• Faithful to Moravian identity
• Accessible to those called
• Financially sustainable
• Positioned to support congregational and global growth

Our goal is clarity and alignment — ensuring that leadership formation strengthens, rather than unintentionally limits, the Church’s future.

Strategic Stewardship and Redeployment of Property

The physical assets entrusted to the Church must actively serve the mission of Christ. Buildings are not monuments to preserve, but instruments to deploy.

Where properties are underutilized, the Consortium will work with Church leadership to reimagine their use in ways that advance ministry and long-term sustainability. This may include transforming facilities into centers for vocational training and skill development, launching Moravian educational initiatives within existing structures, or redeveloping properties into mission-aligned affordable housing.

Redevelopment presents a unique opportunity to invest in people as well as property. We envision programs that teach practical trade skills to young people and to individuals seeking restoration and reentry after incarceration — equipping them with meaningful work, renewed purpose, and deeper connection to community and faith. In this way, redevelopment strengthens congregations, restores lives, and advances the Gospel simultaneously.

Such initiatives can also generate sustainable revenue streams that support the Board of World Mission and expand the global witness of the Moravian Church.

This kind of renewal will not occur by accident. It requires a renewed spirit, bold vision, and courageous leadership centered not on preserving what has been, but on faithfully pursuing what lies ahead.