Anchor Churches

The MA community is comprised of the Staff, MA Board, Anchor churches and their pastors, church planters, interns, prayer and financial supporters, as well as others by invitation from outside entities who are collaborating partners committed to a Total Christ vision in church planting both locally and globally.

Become an Anchor Church

MA was initially blessed by God through Christ Presbyterian Church, New Haven with $3.5 million venture capital with a vision to plant 10 church in Southern CT, 10 Chuch Globally in TEN YEARS! Going on nine years, MA has to date being enabled to plant 24 churches and is planning for at least two more in Southern Connecticut. At the same time, more and more church planters from around the country, and even the world, are contacting us, seeking to become theological collaborators in misisonal ecclesiology and church planters with Mission Anabaino.

In light of these developments, we launching MA 2.0. MA 2.0 will become a 501 (c)(3) organization governed and supported by a network of member churches and supported by anchor churches. We are currently seeking to recruite potential Member and Anchor Churches who share the MA theological vision and missional call to plant church suitable to post-Christian and spiritually frontier regions of the world- MA's specialty.

What is a member church?

Member Church Criteria

• Board Membership: The church must be a member of the MA Board of Directors.
• Doctrinal Agreement: It should belong to a denomination that adheres to the Westminster Confession of Faith or another historic reformed confession as approved by the Board of Directors.
• Vision Alignment: The church must agree with MA’s Total Christ, Five Mark Church Vision and comply with the MA Anchor Church agreement.
• Financial Contribution: The church is required to contribute at least 1.2% of its congregational collection to MA, with 80% of this going directly to funding an MA church plant and 20% to operational expenses.
• Collaborative Participation: The church should assist in the recruitment, assessment, and development within the MA network, and help in finding future MA church planters and sites both locally and globally.
• Pastoral Involvement: The Lead Pastor of the member church must participate in quarterly virtual MA Lead Pastor collaborations and the annual in-person MA Collaborative in Missional Ecclesiology, which is at the expense of the lead pastor’s church.
• Leadership Service: There should be a willingness from the church to serve on the MA Board of Directors.

What is an anchor church?

Anchor Church Criteria

• Vision Agreement: A Church that agrees with MA’s Total Christ, Five Mark Church Vision and is willing to agree to, sign and comply with the MA Anchor Church agreement.
• Financial Commitment: A Church that commits to regular prayer and financially giving to MA wherein 80% is applied directly to funding an MA church plant (with the option of either supporting a MA church plant of the anchor church’s choosing after consultation with MA, or a MA church plant of MA’s choosing.) and 20% to MA Operational Expenses.
• Collaborative Support: A church that is willing to assist in the recruitment, assessment, and development of a growing MA network and collaborative, and to assist in the recruitment and assessment of future MA church planters and sites both locally and globally.
• Pastoral Involvement: A church whose Lead Pastor is invited to participate in virtual quarterly MA Lead Pastor collaborations with the aim of exploring a “Total Christ” missional ecclesiology and strategic plan together with mutual support, worship and prayer.
• Local Collaborative: Establish and facilitate a Mission Anabaino Local Collaborative in their region (see Establishing a Mission Anabaino Local Collaborative).