3 Core Resources
from the Matthew 25 Initiative
What if your parish’s outreach wasn’t just meeting needs, but awakening imaginations, building ownership, and reshaping your community?
The Matthew 25 Initiative helps churches move beyond charity to sustainable, Spirit-filled mercy work that fits your size, budget, and people.
We have 3 tangible offerings for your church
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 to focus and mobilize for 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, equips your leaders to listen well, and supports your congregation in discerning a faithful next step—together.
Living Isa58
Foundations Course: Justice & Mercy
A six-session small group study
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
Videos, handouts, scripture, best practices
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?
Reverb Coaching
Ministry Effectiveness Advanced Training:
A year-long leadership & ministry effectiveness cohort
Focused on outreach pastors and non-profit leaders, this course 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