There are three key ways to partner with us. Individuals can connect with us for updates, resources and encouragement. Pastors and elders can link arms for doctrinal unity and vital ministry relationships. And churches can align with AMBER in order to pursue active gospel partnership with other like-minded churches. Read more below about these three paths to partnership and how to pursue them.
1. Individual Partnership
Open to any interested individuals, this is a great way to stay current with what’s happening at AMBER. We invite you to share your contact details with us so that we can keep you informed with updates, events, resources, and other connection opportunities within AMBER.
2. Pastoral Partnership
Open to pastors/elders of local churches, this is the primary way for like-minded church leaders to associate with AMBER. Through this partnership, we express our unity in doctrine and purpose, and an honest desire to be biblically faithful to our Lord. We look forward to sharing encouragement, resources, and edification through a growing network of relationships with other AMBER pastors.
We require all pastoral partners to read our confession of faith and to be in substantial agreement with its contents, as defined in the statement’s introduction:
Agreement can only mean that an individual has no settled theological opposition to the doctrines contained herein. The repeated phrase “we believe” assumes that this is a corporate statement. While members of the AMBER council are expected to affirm this statement wholeheartedly without reservation, we believe it is necessary to call all those in association with AMBER to a substantial agreement with this statement while graciously granting room for growth for those with hesitations or without formed convictions, trusting the guidance of the whole in places where we feel less confident or even unsettled.
Agreement with our confession will be revisited and expressed on an annual basis.
3. Church Partnership
When a church associates with AMBER, they indicate that, as a collective body of members, they are aligned with AMBER’s priorities and seek active gospel partnership with other like-minded churches. In such cases, we ask that each pastor/elder in the church join AMBER as a pastoral partner (see #2 above). We also ask that the church membership be appropriately informed regarding AMBER’s identity, convictions, and confession of faith, and that they express their intent to associate with AMBER by majority vote at a duly called meeting.
We will also ask for churches to reaffirm their partnership with AMBER on a yearly basis.