Objectives
The Objectives of the Baptist Convention of South Sudan shall include:
1. To equip the leaders of member churches
so that they are sufficiently prepared to shepherd and develop their churches
towards maturity.
This objective of the Convention can be carried out in the following ways:
a. By empowering pastors and church leaders through training in theology, ministry, discipleship, and leadership.
b. By developing regional and association leaders with leadership, resource management, conflict resolution,
peace-making, and capacity building, etc.
c. By empowering church growth and church planting through resource and capacity building, church planting and growth campaigns, and assist in strategic planning at regional levels.
d. By empowering local education and training institutions through workshops, seminaries, conferences, and fellowship retreats.
e. By empowering the church through establishing local and international partnerships to help fulfill its mission efforts.
f. By empowering the churches through the developing and distribution of literature.
2. To strengthen local church leaders and member churches in their effort to shepherd and develop their local churches to
maturity.
This objective of the Convention can be carried out in the following ways:
a. By developing, promoting, maintaining, and encouraging fellowship and ministry among leaders and member churches (church planting; discipleship; mission outreaches; association, region, and national gatherings; prayer retreats; etc).
b. By encouraging member churches through carrying out visits, conferences media (radio, newspaper, television, etc.) and ongoing communication (newsletters, SMS, letters, etc.).
c. By assisting in conflict resolution among leaders, member churches, associations, and regions.
d. By promoting social action (Disaster response, vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS, religious rights, environment issues and cooperating with the government in the promotion of education, health, welfare, and other services, where our values and beliefs are not compromised), among member churches when the need arises.
3. To serve member churches with specialized administrative services so that they may be freed up to focus on
the spiritual development and transformation of their churches and communities.
a. By upholding accountability (doctrinal, spiritual, and moral) ensuring that each member church is not carried away by the deceitfulness of false teaching, sin, and is not hindered from being developed to maturity (Through establishing and maintaining clear policies/standards, and supporting necessary disciplinary measures).
b. By assist member churches through administrative services to free them up to focus on developing their
churches to maturity and community transformation (Legal assistance regarding land, property, and ministerial disputes; promote available medical, retirement, life insurance, scholarships, bursaries, welfare programs, etc).
c. By assisting member churches in their registration, developing and maintaining a database of member churches,
license ministers, and all the property of the BCOSS, member churches, or properties held “In Trust” when necessary.
d. By mobilizing resources to assist the Convention to carry out its objectives and carry out its mission of
strengthening and serving its member churches.
e. By advocating and representing member churches nationally and internationally with international Baptist
organizations with common beliefs and objectives.
f. By engage in social action during emergency situations (disaster emergencies and when religious rights are compromised; etc.).