A few things that have taken place in my own town:

1. The Russellville Ministerial Association - I’m not exactly sure what it is that they do, but one of our assoc. pastors is heavily involved with it. One thing they do is have a daily radio segment (a couple of minutes) in the morning with an encouraging message. They probably oversee things like inter-congregational/denominational service projects as well.

2. My senior pastor and several other senior pastors in town get together for breakfast every week to talk and pray for each other.

3. Some of the youth pastors get together monthly to do the same thing.

4. The youth has what we call “Seek Week.” Once a month during the school year some of they youth groups in town meet at different churches (on a rotation) with a gospel message presented by that churches youth pastor. The idea is to bring your un-believer friends (hence the “seek”).

5. We also do service projects with other churches. We do this thing called “Thanks-4-Giving.” We take a day to clean-up schools, and the like around town. We also invite other churches to be involved.

6. One of my favorite things takes place around every Thanksgiving. There is a local mission called “Main Street Mission” in our town. They provide food and clothes to thousands of people each year (all year). But to make sure that some less fortunate people get to have a decent Thanksgiving we fill boxes with all the stuff to make a dinner and load up a giant truck with the boxes. Then the mission makes all the deliveries. It’s alot of fun.

Anyway, these are just some ideas that are great for establishing connections. You’ll find early on that many many people are an alarming amount of ministers are not willing to cross denominational lines for such things. It’s really very sad. However, over time they should come around.

in Him,
 >>zack