Our purpose is to equip leaders and local churches for maximum Acts 1:8 impact by advancing community-transforming churches, multiplying gospel-advancing churches, and developing disciplemaking leaders.
Multiplying Gospel-Advancing Churches
Expanding the reach of the gospel through an Alliance church multiplication movement by:
- Discovering developing leaders in the church
- Developing their capacity for deeper life, evangelism, ministry, and leadership
- Deploying developed people and their gifts to the Church through church planting
Advancing Community-Transforming Churches
Catalyzing Holy Spirit-empowered churches by:
- Equipping ministry leaders
- Assessing the level of church vibrancy and vitality
- Consulting with churches desiring a new ministry direction
- Transitioning well between pastoral changes
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EquippingU MAX
A leadership tool designed to equip Alliance pastors and leaders as they live spiritually healthy lives and successfully lead healthy C&MA churches
Developing Disciplemaking Leaders
Training and equipping future church and lay leaders by:
- Qualifying through developing standards to increase ministry capacity and responsibility
- Collaborating through engaging ministry partners to grow the pool of qualified leaders
- Supporting through providing holistic development to ensure robust, far-reaching ministry
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ACLD
The Alliance Center for Leadership Development (ACLD) provides digital training in biblical studies, theological studies, and practical leadership.
Alliance Chaplains
Sharing the good news in challenging, diverse, and ever-changing environments to which traditional ministries often have little or no access
Alliance Kids
Equipping leaders, parents, and pastors to facilitate life-changing faith development ministries that impact the Church of right now and the Church of the future
Alliance Youth
Developing and encouraging 2,000+ Alliance churches and youth workers across the U.S., indirectly serving some 35,000+ youth in those churches
Candidate Recruitment and Development
Seeks to guide the next generation, giving leadership to accreditation and licensing for Alliance ministry
Celebrating Our Multicultural Family
(Multicultural Ministries)
Providing loving, caring, and Christian solutions to the complex problems faced by diverse communities by:
- Sharing the conviction that all people from all walks of life are, above all else, God’s image bearers
- Following our Heavenly Father’s admonition to minister to immigrant populations and love the “alien” (Deut. 10:19)
- Endorsing initiatives that celebrate and support our multicultural family—including those for immigrant families arriving in the United States
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Alliance ESL
Exists to cast vision, equip, and coach churches to launch English as a Second Language (ESL) ministries.
RAIN
The Refugee and Immigrant Network (RAIN) engages Alliance churches strategically welcome, build relationships, and share the gospel with refugees and immigrants.
How We’re Organized
Local Churches
The Alliance engages at the local church level first. Every local Alliance congregation is one of about 2,000 fellowships worshiping in 38 languages and dialects across the country.
327,510
U.S. Believers
38
U.S. Languages
1,950
U.S. Churches
Districts & Associations
Alliance churches in the United States and its trust territories, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, are organized into 21 geographic districts, 4 ethnic districts, and 10 associations/ethnic ministries.
Districts
1. Alliance New England
2. Alliance Northwest
3. Alliance South Central
4. Central
5. Central Pacific
6. Eastern Pennsylvania
7. Great Lakes
8. Metropolitan
9. MidAmerica
10. Mid-Atlantic
11. North Central
12. Northeastern
13. Ohio Valley
14. Puerto Rico
15. Rocky Mountain
16. South Pacific Alliance
17. The Alliance Midwest
18. The Alliance South
19. The Alliance Southeast
20. Western Great Lakes
21. Western PA
Multicultural Districts
1. Hmong
2. Korean
3. Spanish Eastern
4. Vietnamese