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President's Office - Why We Do ItThe Office of the President’s calling is to provide leadership in fulfilling the mission of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren (CLB). What is that mission?
In the Office of the President, we continually ask ourselves this question: What will it look like when we can say mission accomplished? It is not a fixed image, as some would understand accomplishing a mission in a business, corporate, military, or even personal sense. The Church of Jesus Christ is a living organism. The accomplishing of our mission occurs when we serve and minister at the height of health and vibrancy. Here is what mission being accomplished looks like, for us:
To achieve this vision of accomplishing our mission, we have banded ourselves together as interdependent congregations who combine our resources for greatest reach. This banding-together of churches is commonly called a “denomination” – sometimes it is referred to as a “synod” – and the ministries of the denomination are extensions of each local CLB congregation. Hence, the mission of the denominational ministries is:
Denominational ministries are comprised of both “front line” mission personnel as well as administrative leadership, which brings us back to the Office of the President whose calling is to provide leadership in fulfilling the mission of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren, which is to serve the congregations in their obedience to the Great Commission locally, nationally and internationally.
In broad terms, here is how we try to do this:
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