Two of the biggest items on the Synod 2026 agenda: receiving a 10-year proposal for church planting and renewal and figuring out how to pay for that and the rest of the denomination’s costs.
For many churches, connecting worship with God’s global mission is a challenge. There may be a mission-focused Sunday every year, or a few Sundays during which missionaries living abroad come and give a talk during the service, but otherwise the whole idea of "mission" feels foreign.
