questions and answers

Why Lexington?

Who is your target population?

What is “mission?”

For your ministry, what is “success,” and how do you measure it?

Are you going to proselytize? 

Why do you both need to be full-time, paid missionaries?

Will you be able to have part-time jobs on the side?

Aren’t churches already doing urban ministry?

How will you be helping the poor?

What is a missionary?

Why are you missionaries and not staff at a church or non-profit organization?  Why don’t you just start a new urban church?

Why First United Methodist Church in Lexington, Kentucky?

What is the culture of downtown?  Why should we think of the culture of downtown differently?

So, what is your job? I don’t get it.

How will you fit into First United Methodist Church’s ministries and staff?

What are you going to do?

Why don’t you work for one of the non-profits that help the poor?

What is the gospel?