About One Matters

During every annual conference season, Discipleship Ministries offer one commemorative plaque and one $1,000.00 (one-thousand-dollar) check to one congregation per Annual Conference that has increased baptisms and professions of faith from zero to at least one in the previous year.

Annual Conferences that want to recognize more than one congregation have two options:

• Discipleship Ministries will email Recognition Certificates to the Annual Conference, which will handle printing, framing, and distribution. No financial award is associated with the certificates.
• Additionally, Discipleship Ministries can supply four extra plaques, leaving the financial award to the Annual Conference responsibility.

ELIGIBILITY

The Director of Connectional Ministries (DCM) nominates a congregation. To qualify for nomination, the congregation must have experienced growth, with at least one baptism or profession of faith in the previous year.

OMA PROCESS

• Discipleship Ministries sends the call for applications to all Annual Conferences in January.
• DCM nominates a congregation to receive the award.
• DCM or designated person completes the online application.
• Discipleship Ministries reviews and accepts the award.
• Discipleship Ministries deposit the $1,000 check in the Annual Conference’s account and annual conference transfers the check to the awarded congregation.
• Discipleship Ministries ship the plaque to the address informed in the application.
• During the annual conference session, a Discipleship Ministries staff delivers the award to the pastor of the awarded congregation.

OMA STORIES

Discipleship Ministries select the best OMA stories to publish on our website. Please make sure you have great pictures and/or videos in case your annual conference is selected.

“With the One Matters Discipleship Award, we want to lift up the importance of discipleship and help interpret across the connection what zeros in professions of faith and baptism mean and what moving away from the zeros means. Each 'one' in those categories represents a transformed life – a life that matters to God, and a life that should matter to us.” – Jeff Campbell, General Secretary.

We look forward to your application!

One Matters

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