NEXT Church is a network of leaders — church members, ruling elders, youth leaders, educators, pastors, seminarians and professors — within and beyond the Presbyterian Church (USA) who believe the Spirit is moving powerfully in the church today, even as what it means to be church is changing.
NEXT Church seeks to follow God by strengthening the relational fabric of church — connecting healthy tissue to healthy tissue. We do this by cultivating congregations and leaders who work in sustained, effective, and faithful ways to promote God’s transformation of our communities for the common good.
In all of our work, we actively seek to confront systems and structures of oppression in ourselves and the world around us. As those steeped in a tradition that trusts in repentance and grace, we recognize we do our work imperfectly and yet we continually strive to learn, seek forgiveness, and go a new way.