文档介绍：OUR PRAYERWe are no longer our own, but thine. Put us to what thou wilt, rank us with whom thou us to doing, put us to suffering. Let us be employed for thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for us be full, let us be empty. Let us have all things, let us have freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and now, O glorious and blessed God, Creator, Son and Holy Spirit, thou art our Lord, and we are your joyful be it. TO ACTION Jesus came near and spoke to them, “...go and make disciples of all nations...teaching them to obey everything that I’manded you. Look, I myself will be with you every day until the end of this present age.”(Matthew 28:18-20 CEB)4ORIGINS?Issues & Innovations Emerging Across the UMC - Congregations and Annual Conferences?Table of Agency Leaders and Bishops?Council of Bishops?Connectional Table?Two CTA Groups?Interim Operations Group 5the challenge from The Call to a minimum of ten years, starting in January 2011, use the drivers of vital congregations as initial areas of attention for sustained and intense concentration on building effective practices in local reform the clergy leadership development, deployment, evaluation, and accountability . Collect, report, review and act on statistical information that measures progress in key performance areas to learn and adjust our approaches to leadership, policies, and the use of human and financial . Reform the Council of Bishops, with the active bishops assuming (1) responsibility and public accountability for improving results in attendance, professions of faith, baptisms, participation in servant/mission ministries, benevolent giving, and lowering the average age of participants in local church life; and (2) establishing a new culture of accountability throughout the challenge from The Call to Action85. Consolidate program and