3 Core Resources

from the Matthew 25 Initiative

What if your parish outreach didn’t just meet needs, but awakened imaginations, built ownership, and reshaped your community?

The Matthew 25 Initiative helps ACNA churches move beyond charity toward sustainable, Spirit-filled mercy work that fits your size, budget, and people.

  • PARISH OUTREACH GUIDE

    A tool to help your parish discern and confirm together your focus of outreach, and galvanizes the church as a whole to own local missional efforts.

  • LIVING ISA58 SMALL GROUP COURSE

    A 6-session course for church leaders and parishioners to deepen biblical justice and mercy, grow in poverty literacy, and foster prayerful, unifying conversations that transform individuals and communities.

  • REVERB: MINISTRY EFFECTIVENESS COACHING

    M25i ensures that your leadership is not on their own to implement your outreach vision and equips outreach leaders with best practices and skills to ensure sustainable outreach ministry.

Parish Outreach Guide

A step-by-step process guide to focus and mobilze local parish outreach

Whether you are:

  • a small parish with a big heart and limited capacity,

  • a growing  or large church needing focus and strategy,

  • reimagining your outreach after leadership transition or pandemic disruption,

  • a church plant that desires the DNA of mission while balancing becoming stable,

  • seeking to integrate mercy, formation, and parish life more deeply,

    — this tool meets you where you are.

The Parish Outreach Guide helps surface what God is already doing in your midst. Our goal is to equip your leaders to listen well and support your congregation in discerning a faithful next step together.

Living Isa58

A Foundations Course in Justice & Mercy

What does it look like to love like Jesus? How can followers of Christ be light and mend our neighborhoods and cities? What does it mean to care for the marginalized, the vulnerable, and the under-resourced?

Over the course of the 6 sessions your group will gain:

  • Biblical theology of justice and mercy,

  • Socio-historic literacy of poverty and common issues,

  • Local practitioner engagement,

  • Reflection and prayer,

  • Discernment tool for individuals and communities,

  • Curated videos, handouts, scripture, best practices.

Reverb Coaching

Ministry Effectiveness Advanced Training:
A year-long leadership & ministry effectiveness cohort

This course for outreach pastors and non-profit leaders develops personal and team leadership skills as well as foundational skills in managing goals and systems:

  • program development & effectiveness

  • engaging vestries, fundraising

  • ensuring volunteer pipelines

  • marketing

  • operations

  • monitoring development