We believe God is calling us to participate in the transformation of the world through Jesus, thus, we commit to Making Disciples of Jesus Christ.

Leadership Development

Priority: Develop and encourage an ongoing culture of Leadership Development.

1. Effective churches develop a defined leadership process for all ages to strengthen and multiply ministries for the transformation of lives.  They also develop a defined discipleship process led by both Lay and Clergy to grow new people in personal and social holiness and integrate them into the active life and work of the church.

2. Effective Clergy and Laity model passionate and prophetic leadership by visioning, inspiring, and ordering the life of the church for faithful implementation of our Strategic Direction.

3. Together, we as the DSC will resource local churches with opportunities for continual, culturally-competent leadership development. Additionally, we will reform the Clergy development, deployment, evaluation, and accountability systems.

New Faith Communities

Priority: Develop and encourage an ongoing culture of starting New Faith Communities.

1. Effective churches start discipleship groups with new people each year and give witness to how lives are being touched and transformed by God’s grace. Some of these discipleship groups will become new churches.

2. Effective Clergy partner with spiritually engaged Laity in growing new groups into communities of faith.

3. Together, we as the Desert Southwest Conference (DSC) will multiply disciples by starting new churches every year in AZ, NV & southeast CA. We will give witness to the Church and the world how lives are being touched and transformed by Christ.

Social Holiness

Priority: Develop and encourage an ongoing culture of Social Holiness.

1. Effective churches equip members to identify and engage opportunities for ministry and justice to transform God’s world: our brothers, our sisters and ourselves. We also partner with others to identify and address local, global and systemic causes of injustice and human suffering.

2. Effective Clergy model prayerful devotion and personal and social holiness through their lives and ministry.

3. Together, we as the DSC will guide our churches in addressing prevalent social issues-consistent with our historic Methodist commitment to social holiness-through biblical and theological reflection, prayer, study and action.