Parish resources

Whether your parish has a long-standing history in missions involvement, or is just getting started, we have what you need! This is the place to go for Church service resources, trainings and learning opportunities for leadership or laypeople, basic models and principals of partnership, as well as books and audio resources. Also we will introduce you to networks and ministries that are already engaged in being the hands and feet of Jesus and eager to partner with your parish. We can help your church to better mobilize, send, and support missions and missionaries both domestically and internationally.

If you are just starting in missions or Anglicanism, we encourage you to also check out our Where to Begin page and if you are looking for an Anglican parish in the US, use the interactive map on the ACNA website.

Videos

Does your church want to support international projects? Knowing how to give in helpful and effective ways can be hard. ARDF can help you with their model and principals of partnership!

Many think missions is a luxury item for big churches, but every church needs a missional DNA, especially new church plants. Learn how to create a missional culture, move a congregation out of the box and out the door, instill a missional imagination, do sound cultural exegesis, and create effective structures to empower mission.

The full playlist of plenary talks from our 2019 Better Together Conference. These talks are excellent resources for training, sharing in adult Sunday schools, incorporating into your World Mission Sunday celebrations, etc.

Church Service resources

World Mission Sunday is celebrated every year during Epiphany. We have a whole page of resources to assist your church in celebrating this day and could be integrated into any service throughout the year. World Mission Sunday Resources.

Our Litany for Mission has been prepared and published by the Anglican Global Mission Partners. Accompanying these litanies, is a bulletin which provides context and insights.
- For additional prayer resources, check out our Prayer Resource Page.
- Or for prayers and bulletins regarding the Persecuted Church visit our Persecuted Church Resource page.
Through a partnership, Getty Music has provided free downloads of sheet music, chord charts, & mp3 files of three songs, Facing a Task Unfinished, For the Cause, May the Peoples Praise You. These songs were specifically picked for world mission Sunday.

Creating a missional Culture at your church

Documents & Guidelines

Steps in Starting a Global Mission Ministry in Your Church, these helpful steps were outlined by the Anglican Global Mission Partners.
One of our ministry partners, Team, has put together a guide for casting a vision for a missions team at your church.
Team also created a Handbook for Creating a Missions Committee with helpful questions to set up a well thought through system.
Partnership Guidelines, this document was created by the Anglican Global Mission Partners combining years of experiences and leadership in the area of partnering.
Parish Goal Chart, we created a chart to help your group brainstorm resources and next steps in answering the question, “how we want our parish/diocese to be involved in mission in five years?”

Training

Certification Program for Parish Mission Leaders, this series of training seminars will equip individuals, both clergy and laypersons to be certified as “Parish Mission Leaders”. The program will give participants both the experience and the skills to establish or strengthen the Local Outreach and Global Mission program of a church whatever its size.
Check out Perspectives’ online courses. Perspectives helps believers from all walks of life see how they can get threaded into God’s story of redeeming people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to Himself.
OMF, whether forming your church's very first missions committee or looking for ways to better support your current missionaries, their team of consultants can help through resources, consulting, training and workshops, all offered free to churches.

Newly Released Missions Curricula from Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM)!!!

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Supporting Missionaries

One important way that churches participate in missions is by supporting those individuals, couples, and families that God has called to live and work cross-culturally overseas. To learn more visit our Partner Care: Supporting Well resource page.

For Cross-Cultural workers in secure areas, our communication about and to them is extremely important in keeping them safe. Check out these guidelines, which are a helpful rule of thumb—always confirm with your worker for any specifics and/or areas they want to emphasize for their situation.

Opportunities to Partner

There are already a lot of ministries that are doing work both in the U.S. and internationally that your church can partner with. Here are a few groups that are doing great work in communities by partnering with local churches.

Anglican Relief & Development Fund (ARDF), ARDF is the official international relief and development arm of the ACNA and funds holistic, community-based, locally-driven initiatives across a variety of sectors including education, vocational training, as well as health and food security.

Anglican Immigrant Ministries, empowers Anglican churches to welcome the strangers in our midst and strengthen family life through faith-based immigration legal aid centers.
Anglican Multi-Ethnic Network, a group of individuals, organizations, and churches within the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) dedicated to encouraging the church to better embody the universal saving power of the gospel through planting multi-ethnic churches or increasing the presence of people of color in existing churches.
Caminemos Juntos, is an Anglican Latino network and church planting movement. Their vision is to unify, mobilize and multiply latino Anglican churches throughout the 35 countries in the Americas (North, Central, South America and the Caribbean). They have yearly conferences in North America and in South America.
Every Tribe & Nation Network works with Anglicans who have come to North America from multiple nations, seeking to integrate them into the life and ministry of the ACNA through relationships, respect, and resources for the release of leadership into the next generation.

For more ministries to partner with, visit our partners page.