EPA Purpose
Recruit and develop transformational leaders to make disciples and grow vital, missional congregations for the transformation of the world.

Vital Mission Congregations
Holy Spirit-led communities of passionate disciples who are working together to grow new disciples, inspiring worship, active small groups, risk taking community mission, and generous giving to mission. (Acts 2:42-47)

A vital congregation has:

• Inviting and inspiring worship
• Engaged disciples in mission and outreach
• Gifted, equipped and inspired lay leadership
• Effective, equipped and inspired clergy leadership
• Small groups and strong children's programs and youth ministry

Vital congregations are led by and made up of vital disciples. These are some marks of vital disciples:

• Disciples worship
• Disciples make new disciples
• Disciples engage in growing their faith
• Disciples engage in mission
• Disciples give to mission

Through the Vital Congregation Pathway, EPA Congregations will work with a facilitator to develop one or more of the vital congregation markers. EPA congregations will be invited to assess their current gifts and the gifts within the wider community. Congregations will develop and implement their action plan focused on one or more of the vital congregation markers.