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Miami church achieves welcoming status
MIAMI — Cutler Ridge United Methodist Church
here joined a growing list of Florida Conference churches receiving
national recognition for their welcoming skills. The 330-member church
was named a Welcoming Congregation last month.
The national Welcoming Congregations recognition
is part of the Igniting Ministry Planning Kit and is one of many ways
churches can measure and improve their welcoming skills, according to
Deeann Bogle, a project associate with UMCom’s Igniting Ministry
office who heads the Welcoming Congregations effort.
A 38-item worksheet spells out many of the ways
a congregation can be welcoming. Each item has a different value
between one and 50, and congregations must achieve 100 points to
qualify for the recognition. Qualifying churches receive a plaque and
are tagged as Welcoming Congregations in Igniting Ministry’s
Find-a-Church database.
Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker and the Florida
Conference Igniting Ministry design team have set a goal for every
congregation in the Florida Conference to become a Welcoming
Congregation. For more information on Welcoming Congregations
recognition and the Florida Conference goal, visit http://www.flumc.org/ignitingministry.
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