Acceptance Letter the the Mission America Coalition

The Missional Church Network sent this acceptance letter to Mission America, signed by eighteen community leaders familiar with MCN's work. Some of you might enjoy reading it.

The Missional Church Network Mission America Coalition

333 Sutton Dr., P.O. Box 13930
Newton, KS Palm Desert, CA

67114 92255

December 7, 2007

Dear Dr. Cedar and Mission America’s Loving Our Communities to Christ Team,

Thank you for the invitation to have The Missional Church Network (MCN) of Newton, Kansas partner with the Mission America Coalition - for at least a three year period as a pilot city in the “Loving Our Community to Christ” (LC2C) framework. As members and active participants in the greater Newton community, we welcome and encourage this collaboration for the purpose of furthering the LC2C passion both organizations share - MCN locally, and Mission America nationally.

It is our hope that collaboration between MCN’s leadership team, Mission America facilitators, and the leadership from other Pilot Cities will help each of our communities pursue their unique “Kingdom Class” goals, and that this partnership will be an encouragement to Newton and other increasingly Kingdom-minded communities to help nurture cross denominational participation, the growth of participation in our local churches, spiritual maturity throughout our community and transformational community impact.

Timothy Conner Roger Scantlin Doug Ingmire

MCN Coordinator Pastor New Life Assembly Pastor Newton Christian Church

MCN Secretary/Treasurer MCN Round Table

Brian Curran Jason Reynolds Dave Reimer

Pastor First Church of God Pastor Hillcrest Community Foursquare Pastor Grace Community Church

MCN Round Table MCN Round Table Treasurer, Newton Ministerial Alliance

A.J. Wuthnow Jim Daily Steve Kelly

Harvey County Sheriff Newton Police Chief Newton Medical Center President/CEO

Joyce Truskett Brian Bascue Menno Isaac

Harvey County Clerk Superintendent, President, Newton Kiwanis Club

Newton Recreation Commission

Penny Dugan Russ Jones Brian Mills

New Jerusalem Missions Publisher, The Chronicle Newspaper Assistant Professor of Psychology Tabor College

Harvey County Homeless Shelter

Larry Lee Scott Miller Jim Horning

Pastor All Nations Pentecostal Pastor Kingdom Life Ministries Director of Student Ministries, Grace Community Church

President, Newton Youth Ministry Alliance