Innovative Holistic Mission Symposium (IHM)
The 2.5 day Symposium leads and equips participants to design, develop, and launch an innovative missional initiative in their community.
Topics include: how to prepare your church to engage missionally, how to understand a city’s pain and seize the opportunity to be a healer, how to understand the unique strengths that can be applied missionally while understanding your limits, how to road test your innovative idea, how to develop a ministry action plan or business plan, etc.
“This is the best Alliance event I have ever been to. I came away resourced, inspired, and equipped with practical steps of how to launch an innovative mission in my city.”
Dave Lawson, Lead Pastor, East Park Church
Register here for Feb 17-19, 2026 :
What to Expect
We conduct a 2.5 day symposium to lead and equip congregations participating in the PEAK coaching process to design, develop, and launch a holistic and innovative mission in their city. The aim is to help congregations adapt to their changing cultural and social contexts by gaining skills to understand the needs of a community, learning how to respond missiologically, and potentially leverage church facilities to meet these needs.
Symposium Process ( 2.5 days )
- Define clearly what an IHM is.
- Identify a biblical basis for the IHM.
- Provide examples for IHM’s from within scripture, church history, and our denomination, the C&MA.
- Instruct participants regarding church prerequisites for launching IHM’s.
- Teach participants how to discover a city’s urgent community needs.
- Highlight how a congregation can leverage their church facility to launch an IHM.
- Provide information about how to set the stage for the launch of IHM.
- Teach participants to develop a ministry action plan.
- Teach church participants how to unleash and sustain an IHM vision.
- Expand time to continue working on discovering urgent community needs and the development of a ministry action plan.