Functions

CANACOM is both FACILITATOR and COLLABORATOR. CANACOM facilitates the mission of member churches in their own context as well as common initiatives within the partnership. As COLLABORATOR, they contribute to a common pool or 'roundtable' through which the resources are shared. All churches serve as donors and receivers, together determining how the common resources are to be identified and used.

Sharing of Personnel (SOP)

Mutual sharing is practiced as a means of gaining new understanding, learning new ways of relating and developing new biblical mission identities. This mutuality ensures that churches both send and receive. There is an increasing awareness that we need others, different perspectives and traditions to shape our understanding of our calling. That we are all 'in process' and need one another is emphatically demonstrated in a visible way. This was evident when CANACOM facilitated the provision of Ministers to Grenada.

Young Adults in Mission (YAM) workcamps

YAM workshops are opportunities to learn partnership in mission through working, living and studying together as an international group within a host country. The camps mix academic thinking and manual work. They are held for three weeks in a CANACOM member country. In this setting, they are exposed to ways of bearing witness that are biblically valid, culturally relevant, creative and practical.

Joint Mission Action Teams (JOMAT)

These are groups of 3 to 5 persons from different member churches who live, work and witness together for a period of 1 to 5 years, hosted by a CANACOM member church. They share in a mission frontier project of that church, learn partnership in mission by doing it and by their nature as an intercultural and interracial group, live out the vision of partnership.

CANACOM has facilitated the projects of member churches by giving grants. For example:

• a Soup Kitchen and Meals on Wheels—Curacao
• a Women’s Skills Training project—Cuba
• equipment for Recording Studio—Jamaica
• An Ice Storm Fund—Canada
• Native America to Columbus 500—U.S.A.