Multicultural Ministries

Purpose
This department has been created to assist in the evangelistic and church planting ministries among the diverse ethnicities within the boundaries of the established districts of the Evangelical Methodist Church, in order that the Gospel of Jesus Christ might be presented to as many cultural groups as possible for the winning of the lost, the making of disciples and the establishing of viable, reproductive local churches.

Goals

  • Develop systematic strategies and encourage the establishment and growth of effective multicultural ministries in the Evangelical Methodist Church.
  • Establish a funding base.
  • Solicit the full support of superintendents and church leaders.
  • Maintain a relationship with and seek information from denominational and interdenominational organizations which are actively ministering to ethnicities.

Categories of Ministries

  • Mono-ethnic – a congregation of one distinct ethnic group with few or no other ethnicities or Anglos represented.
  • Multi-congregational – an established church which shares its facilities with another or other congregations which are ethnically or culturally different.
  • Multi-lingual – an established church in which regular services may be translated into another language for the benefit of a second language group.
  • Multi-cultural – an established church of which a minimum of 20% of the attendees are ethnically different from the remainder of the congregation.

Personnel
The Director of the Department of Multicultural Ministries for the 2006-2010 quadrennium is Rev. Vernon Perkins, 9025 W 17th ST N, Wichita, KS 67212-1311
Phone: (316)644-1241
Email: vernonperkinsv@msn.com

Links
www.ethnicamericanetwork.com
www.sim.org/index.php/country/US

Multicultural DepartmentRev. Vernon & Ruth Perkins. Acts 17:24-27 “The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed times, and the boundaries of their dwellings, that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”

Concentration of Hispanic Population

Concentration of Hispanic Population