Covenant Church Agreement is simply a commitment to a more intentional partnership between churches and the association, to make more effective the association intent to "Resource Church Vision." Three most significant parts of the agreement are the church health assessment, the Peer Learning Communities, and the joint mission projects with other churches. These, we believe, will provide the foundation for more effective resourcing of TCMBA churches.

Prayerfully consider becoming a 'Covenant Church.' The link below can be used to download a copy of the agreement certificate to 'sign up' as a Covenant Church. The signed document can be mailed to: TCMBA, 2600 W 82nd Street, Bloomington, MN, 55431. If you would like someone to speak to a church leadership group about the covenant please Email - tcmba@tcmba.com - or call - 952-440-2913.

Covenant Agreement Elements:

As A Covenant Church, We Agree To:

1. Report Key Indicators to the association quarterly. These include, but are not limited to, baptisms, average worship attendance, undesignated giving to the church, Cooperative Program and TCMBA contributions, involvement in joint mission projects with other TCMBA churches, church planting involvement, and partnerships with other churches and organizations.

2. Establish and report annual church growth goals.

3. Conduct a church health assessment process every 3-5 years with the first to be initiated as soon as possible. The church is to develop plans from this process to address the key vision issues identified in the assessment process and submit these along with resourcing requests to the association upon completion of the process.

4. The pastor and, if possible, other staff is to be involved in a Peer Learning Community (PLC) over a two year period.

5. Be involved in a joint mission project with other TCMBA churches.

6. Contribute financially to the association striving to reach annual giving of at least 3% of undesignated budget receipts over a period of the next 5 years.

Benefits a Covenant Church can expect:

1. Receive priority consideration with resourcing requests.

2. Financial assistance with expenses related to doing a church health assessment.

3. Receive resourcing for key issues plans to the maximum extent possible and assist the covenant church to discover other resources within the larger denominational system.

4. Receive priority commitments of TCMBA and MWBC to provide personalized coaching and consultative attention.

5. Have the partnership of other covenant churches in achieving key issue goals.