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Purpose

The Coalition for Ministry in Daily Life is an international network of Christians and their organizations committed to fostering the affirmation and practice of ministry in daily life by all followers of Christ.

To this end, we who are joined together in the Coalition shall…

  • Support one another’s efforts to continue Christ’s ministry in daily life and become part of the Spirit’s movement in our time

  • Provide opportunities for Christians from different traditions, places and occupations to learn from each other about their ministries in the workplace, the community and the family

  • Commend to all our sisters and brothers in Christ the theological perspectives, institutional patterns and personal practices that are especially supportive of ministry in daily life.

The Coalition’s mission is carried out chiefly through its

  • quarterly publication called LayNet
  • annual weekend consultations
  • Internet sharing groups
  • periodic projects responding to special opportunities.

We are a diverse group, so we tend to find ourselves placing special value on different things among CMDL’s activities. Some of us, for example, especially like the times of face-to-face sharing provided by our annual consultations.

Some look forward especially to the periodic mind-stretching and faith-deepening that comes from writers in LayNet.

And some of us find particularly helpful the Internet “discussions” on such issues as the relevance of Christian faith to the practice of law and the ways congregations can awaken and support members’ ministry in daily life.

“The movement away from ministry as the monopoly of ordained men to ministry as the responsibility of the whole people of God, ordained as well as non-ordained, is one of the most dramatic shifts taking place in the church today.” David J. Bosch, 1991

“It is a gross error to suppose that the Christian cause goes forward solely… on weekends. What happens on the regular weekdays may be far more important…than what happens on Sunday….The idea is that God can call us to many kinds of activity and that secular work well done is a holy enterprise.” Elton Trueblood, 1952

COALITION for MINISTRY in DAILY LIFE