Strategy for African-American Church Growth Within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

In light of the General Assembly mandate to increase racial ethnic membership in the PC(USA) by 20 percent by the year 2010, the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC) recognizes the critical necessity to take the lead in developing a Strategy for African-American Evangelism and Church Growth. In the document are strategies which we encourage presbyteries, synods and General Assembly offices to implement in order to ensure that the 1998 Racial Ethnic Immigrant evangelism Church Growth Strategy achieves the objective of increasing African-American membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)