Invite Welcome Connect: Stories & Tools to Transform Your Church

Foreword by Michael B. Curry.

Guided by the gospel imperative to "Go and make disciples of all nations," the ministry of Invite Welcome Connect equips and empowers individuals and congregations to practice evangelism, hospitality, and connectedness. Invite Welcome Connect's founder, Mary Parmer, shares the deep truths of this ministry as well as practical steps to assess your faith community and begin implementation. This resource also features stories of transformation from more than two dozen lay and clergy leaders.

Mary Foster Parmer is director of Invite Welcome Connect at the Beecken Center in the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is past director of the Gathering of Leaders, a national leadership gathering of young Episcopal clergy. Parmer has served as lay deputy to four General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, and she currently serves on the Task Force on Clergy Leadership Formation in Small Churches.