Cluster Groups: Purpose

Cluster groups focus on three general areas:

1. Personal Support

• Sharing and prayer with each other
• Mutual encouragement

2. Pastoral Development

• Calling: perceiving vision from God and sense of mission for his church.
• Character: building in accountability for attitudes and behavior and growing in Christ-like character.
• Competency: helping pastors achieve the core leadership skills identified to be an effective pastor.

3. Church Health

• Learning the basics of developing a healthy church.
• Helping pastors with ideas to put the various strategies in place.

4. Accountability

The clusters set standards and methods whereby participants can hold each other mutually accountable to maintain the United Brethren commitment to:

• moral character
• doctrinal soundness
• administrative integrity
• ministry competence.

5. Interaction

The pastors who form a cluster plan events, ministry opportunities, training opportunities, etc., where their congregations can interact, encourage, and support and fellowship with each other.