Ministerial association

A ministerial association is an ecumenical Christian group that is active on the local level.[1][2] Clergy from various congregations, including Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian, Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Reformed, often meet monthly to discuss local issues that they can collectively address, in addition to hosting events such as community Lenten services,[3] or an interdenominational Good Friday service.[4]

United Methodist Church clusters

In the United Methodist Church there are church clusters which consist of three of more congregations.[5]

gollark: "You pick basically whatever, and we pay for it" isn't really a monopsony; people still have demand for each university, but the version of demand as "willing and able to pay for it" just becomes "willing to have it".
gollark: If the government throws piles of money at free education, you would, presumably, eventually get the majority of people going through university or something. Which would be nice, if it did not also cost a vast amount of money. And at the same time you dilute... whatever the degree is supposed to represent... and I don't really know what happens.
gollark: But that university has basically no incentive to have reasonable prices.
gollark: I said "many", not "all".
gollark: The government throwing money at it will not make that better.

See also

References
  1. Gros, Jeffrey; McManus, Eamon; Riggs, Ann (1998). Introduction to Ecumenism. Paulist Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780809137947.
  2. Minutes of the North Indiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. United Methodist Church. 1990. p. 1635. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  3. Graham, Kevin M. (10 July 2012). Beyond Redistribution: White Supremacy and Racial Justice. Lexington Books. p. 11. ISBN 9780739130988.
  4. Encyclopedia of World Religions. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 May 2008. p. 309. ISBN 9781593394912.
  5. "Sum is greater than parts when churches work together". United Methodist Communications. Archived from the original on 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-01-17.


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