International Union Of Deacons

The International Union of Deacons believe that it is the Deacons responsibility to look after the business matters of the church. (Acts 6:1-6) We are to provide the pastor, saints and all those who are well wishers of the local church, the best of our service and talent in ministering to the spiritual and physical needs of the congregation under the divine of God.

Goals
The goals of the International Union of Deacons are to develop and demonstrate:
Mastery in being a Deacon of Excellence
Reverence and Respect for Training and Ordination
Skills in Creating Effective Business Ventures
Compassion in Ministering to the Needs of Widows, Widowers, and Orphans.
Spiritual Relationship and Fellowship

Our Purpose
The purpose of said Union are:

• To foster and maintain, first, a stance of prayer and obedience, which provides the atmosphere that is essential to discerning the whispering of the spirit; then a posture of solidarity and fellowship of creative development and effective service
• To crystallize and deepen our faith in the Risen Lord as Savior.
• To continually test, and make manifest our diaconic credentials through concerned outreach in times of life’s greatest crises -birth; sickness; family breakdown; aging and death; thereby demonstrating the broadening social conscience of the church.
• To develop and administer programs of spiritual and educational value In the areas of witness; proclamation; sacraments, i.e. baptism and communion; evangelism; stewardship; counseling; service delivery; and administration so that the membership may be knowledgeable and informed with respect to their diaconic task.
• To involve and invest ourselves in the total life of the church as it worships, teaches, and serves.
• To further through financial support our sense of creative mission as it is expressed through the Home Mission Department of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic faith, Inc.
• To do anything and everything incidental or connected with the foregoing purpose.

To delimit our zeal and focus our commitment, we set forth the following affirmations of faith and assurance:

The commission to serve is our motivating spirit, and the outgoing, self-giving, sacrificial love of Christ Jesus is the source of our conviction.

We do not serve for the purpose of acquiring power. We are Christ’s men and, hence, He has made us sensitive to the danger of power.

We renounce divisiveness and struggle for power, which divide and hinder the church.

We shall seek, at all cost, to avoid the comfortable detachment that dodges real current issues affecting people, because compassionate commitment demands fervent involvement in the bread-and-butter issues of man.

Finally, we do not fear criticism, and we are not free from error. Therefore, we freely express a willingness to swiftly abandon ineffective services and programs, and outmoded structures once identified.