Supported by Lilly Endowment, Inc., this project is
designed to help Christian congregations find ways to
come to unity around a common sense of Christ's leading
— regardless of church polity and organizational
structure.
The project has three parts to it: the first involving
a national pastoral leadership conference (Jan. 16-18,
2005), the second involving a two-year consultation
among a select group of pastors and scholars, and the
third involving the publication of findings for the
benefit of the larger Christian movement.
The George Fox University Congregational Discernment
Project is directed by Paul N. Anderson, professor of
Biblical and Quaker Studies at George Fox
University (Newberg, OR 97132; panderso@georgefox.edu).