Project 250 Archives - Brethren in Christ U.S.

68 Original Songs Submitted to 2024 Songwriting Initiative

68 Original Songs Submitted to 2024 Songwriting Initiative

The 10 Core Values of Brethren in Christ U.S. were the central focus of the 2024 Songwriting Initiative, designed to strengthen community and creativity across the denomination. The initiative ran from August to October last year in conjunction with… Read On

Published February 5, 2025

Church Planting Summit Reignites Multiplication Efforts

Church Planting Summit Reignites Multiplication Efforts

A recent gathering brought together representatives from across the country to renew the denomination’s focus on church planting. This coincides with priority three of Project 250 which aims to multiply missional congregations, movements, and… Read On

Published November 25, 2024

5 Principles for Twenty-First Century Worship

5 Principles for Twenty-First Century Worship

BIC communities look different and face new challenges in the twenty-first century than they did even a generation ago. Today, BIC churches in the United States are found in rural, suburban, and urban contexts, with members from many cultural… Read On

Published September 18, 2024

New Book Offers Fresh Perspectives on BIC Core Values

New Book Offers Fresh Perspectives on BIC Core Values

A worldwide pandemic, dynamic social shifts, the ongoing decline of the Western church, vast advances in technology – much has changed in the twenty years since Brethren in Christ U.S. first identified its ten core values. Considering such shifts… Read On

Published May 22, 2024

21 Congregations Join Program Assessing Church Health and Community Engagement

21 Congregations Join Program Assessing Church Health and Community Engagement

We are thrilled to announce the members in Cohort A of the Thriving Congregations Initiative. Over the next three years, twenty-one congregations from four conferences (listed below) will address the changing context of congregational life and… Read On

Published April 4, 2024

BIC U.S. Awarded $1.25 Million for Thriving Congregations Initiative

BIC U.S. Awarded $1.25 Million for Thriving Congregations Initiative

General Conference of the Brethren in Christ (Brethren in Christ U.S.) has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish The Thriving Congregations Initiative. The project is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s… Read On

Published December 6, 2023

How We Got Here

How We Got Here

“We go to all the world, his kingdom hope unfurled. No other name has power to save but Jesus Christ the Lord.” This stirring refrain from the hymn “Facing a Task Unfinished” closed Alan Robinson’s National Director’s Report to the 2018… Read On

Published July 6, 2023

A Zesty Mix

Culture & Perspectives + Resources

A Zesty Mix

This article’s crux, like the rest of Scripture, hangs on the Great Commandment (Matt. 22:37-40) to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. In other words, loving the Lord and loving our… Read On

Published January 31, 2023

Meet Our New Development Officer

Meet Our New Development Officer

We are pleased to introduce our new Development Officer, Mark Templeton. This new role was created in part to support the growth coming out of Project 250, an initiative to guide us as we approach our 250th anniversary in 2028. “The priorities… Read On

Published December 14, 2021