NATIONAL CHURCH MINISTRY INITIATIVE

The National Church Ministry Initiative (NCMI) exists to equip, connect, and support churches as they launch and lead effective foster care, adoption, and family support ministries. The NCMI serves and supports churches and organizations nationwide, including 900+ CAFO member churches and 200+ member organizations, through best-in-class resourcing, customized coaching, and cohort based learning on effective principles and practices for impactful engagement.

For Your Organization

Does your organization engage and mobilize churches? In collaboration with CAFO’s More Than Enough Initiative, the NCMI comes alongside organizations and local networks to empower and equip them to effectively engage and mobilize churches. Consider how your organization can both give to and receive from this work. What resources or effective practices can you offer other organizations in the CAFO community who are working to form strategic relationships with churches? As well, resources and coaching from the NCMI are available for your team to help you with church engagement, partnership, resourcing, and mobilization of churches in your work.

The new Effectively Engaging Churches book helps your team consider principles and practices for partnering well with churches.

For Your Church

From courses to cohorts to coaching, there’s a place for you to find the resources and relationships you need to help your church take its next best steps forward in ministry. Access the one-of-a-kind “Church Ministry Essentials” ondemand learning platform consisting of 10 modules on launching and leading a foster care, adoption, and family support ministry in your church. Read the short “Everyone Can Do Something” book full of insight, ideas, and implementable next steps you can take in your ministry. Participate in a group learning cohort with other church-based ministry leaders where you can ask questions, share insights, and glean wisdom from others doing similar work as you. Or, get even more personal by engaging in a coaching session with a seasoned church ministry leader who can help you gain the clarity and confidence you need to lead and scale the ministry opportunities God has entrusted to you. Wherever you are on your journey, CAFO’s National Church Ministry Initiative stands ready to help. Visit cafo.org/church to learn more.