Reconciling Ministries Network

Reconciling Ministries Network – Mission

Living into our shared baptismal covenant, Reconciling Ministries Network equips and mobilizes United Methodists to resist evil, injustice, and oppression as we seek justice for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

Reconciling Ministries Network – Vision

Reconciling Ministries Network envisions a renewed and vibrant Wesleyan movement that is biblically and theologically centered. As committed disciples of Jesus Christ, we strive to transform ourselves and the world by living out the Gospel’s teachings of grace, love, justice, and celebration of all of God’s children.

Reconciling Ministries Network – Strategic Directive

1: Develop and disseminate a transformational frame of Biblical Obedience that supports faithful disciples of Jesus Christ doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God.

2: Increase the quantity, capacity, and vitality of Reconciling Communities (RCs), Reconciling United Methodists (RUMs), and regional action teams to faithfully act as the center of a renewed and revitalized United Methodist Church.

3: Model the diversity of God’s creation by training, equipping, and supporting new leadership with intentional emphasis on the development of people of color, young adult, and transgender leaders, while partnering with like-minded organizations within the Church and the broader community to build a diverse network towards the goal of ending oppression and creating full inclusion of all people in the UMC regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

4: Live out the connectivity of a world-wide church through communication and relationship building with clergy, laity, and other groups of the Central Conferences that are working towards the full inclusion of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, identifying both unique needs and common causes.

5: Participate in the current and future connectional processes and power structures of The United Methodist Church in collaboration with current and future emerging alternative Methodist/Wesleyan allies and structures, calling those at all levels of authority and discipleship to faithfulness for our shared mission.

6: Enhance RMN’s long-term success by emphasizing organizational excellence and financial sustainability.

Rise & Resist

We are a network of over 40,000 Reconciling United Methodists and over 1,000 Reconciling Churches and Communities. Dozens of statements, open letters, and bold refutations of GC2019’s shameful decisions have emerged from the people, communities, and churches of the Reconciling movement across the connection. Since GC2019, this people who call themselves Reconciling have borne witness for justice in media outlets, performed same-gender weddings, organized gatherings, and continued in faithful ministry as called by their Creator.

We are not only working on what is to come, but we are already living it. Justice movements within our Church can no longer seek justice by compromise. To do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God require us to rise and resist.

Read on for more information on how you and your community or church can live further into your Reconciling commitment.

Reconciling Ministries Network – Core Principles

CLICK HERE to read through the RMN Core Principles.