Our Mission
Disciples Home Missions equips and empowers Disciples to change the world, by engaging in coordinated missions on behalf of the whole church, acting and speaking to promote greater justice and mercy, and providing innovative programs and resources to congregations, regions, clergy, and laity.

Disciples Home Missions is a hands-on General Ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). DHM lives into the Gospel of Jesus Christ by strengthening and developing partnerships, supporting congregational transformation, resourcing leadership development, sustaining faith formation, providing mission opportunities and advocating for justice, fairness, and equality for all of God’s children and creation.

• Leader Development
• Congregational Transformation
• Faith Formation
• Christian Vocations
• Pro-Reconciliation/Anti-Racism
• Justice and Advocacy

In addition to the programs listed below, DHM staff provide many other services to congregations, regions and the general church, including technical assistance and referral, print and electronic resources, consultations, workshops, events, and constituency networks. Disciples–both clergy and laity–are encouraged to contact DHM staff by phone or peruse the website for a complete list of services and contact information.

Children Worship and Wonder

Christian Education and Faith Formation

Green Chalice

Disciples Chaplains

Disciples Interims

Disciples Men

Disciples Women’s Ministries

Disciples Youth

Disciples Young Adults

Justice and Advocacy Ministries

Office of Christian Vocation

Programs and support resources loosely fall under these categories: 

• Leader development: programs for youth and young adults, African American ministries, support for clergy and laity in the church, scholarships;
• Faith formation: Congregational Christian education, spiritual growth, congregational transformation and planning, and programs aimed at strengthening congregational life;
• Missions: Refugee and immigration ministries, mission projects, disaster recovery, Disciples Volunteering;
• Justice: Racial and environmental justice, Rapid Response, legislative issues;
• Networks: families and children, youth, young adults, women, and men.

These mission partners are popular destinations for individual and group work trips. They provide a broad range of social services and spiritual resources to support and transform their local communities, bringing hope and hospitality, healing and peace, justice and compassion.

• All Peoples Christian Center
• Blue Theology Mission Stations
• Inman Christian Mission Center
• Kansas Christian Home
• Oakland Peace Center
• Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries
• Urban Spirit
• Yakama Christian Mission

Sponsored Organizations

• Association of Disciple Musicians
• Disciples Chaplain Association
• General Youth Council
• National Association of Christian Church Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Camp Fire Leaders

Organizations Relating to DHM

• Association of Disciples Intentional Interim Ministers
• Christmount Christian Assembly
• Disciples Peace Fellowship
• General Conference of Disciples Men
• International Christian Women’s Fellowship
• National Convocation
• National Hispanic Assembly/Obra Hispana
• United Christian Missionary Society
• Association for Disciples in Outdoor Ministries (ADIOM)

General Ministries

All General Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) work and sometimes partner with Disciples Home Missions at various points to provide program and support for ministry.

Before the Disciples’ restructure in the late 1960s to early 1970s, those with mission concerns had organized themselves into particular societies, including the Foreign Christian Missionary Society, the American Christian Missionary Society, and the Christian Woman’s Board of Mission. Over the years, these bodies had evolved beyond voluntary associations of people to become organizations with paid staff. In 1920, these three bodies, FCMS, ACMS, and CWBM, became the United Christian Missionary Society. So, our history comes from early connections of people who gathered themselves together, pooled their resources, found ways to raise money in order to create mission-both in North American and around the world.

At the time of the Disciples restructure, the United Christian Missionary Society was divided into Disciples Home Missions for work at home and the Division of Overseas Ministries for work abroad.

Adapted from The President’s Report to Disciples Home Missions Board of Directors, November 20, 1999