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Corporate Details

The IICM Board of Trustees is the ultimate corporate authority in the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry, Inc., overseeing the activities of the Executive Director and staff.

The Institute manages the budget, which pays for computer equipment, computer programming and hosting. Other costs include the human resources necessary to the running of the IICM projects, though most people are volunteers.

IICM Project Highlights

APEPT.org -- Empowering Missional Roles
The APEPT Missionality survey will identify your missional role according to your own unique APEPT Missionality blend based on Ephesians 4:11. Once you know your missional role, then you will be able to:

• Learn more about your missional role
• Serve on a Missional team
• Network with others
• Understand how your role works in your neighborhood

Be all that God designed you to be!

So take the survey!!

Attend an APEPT Missionality Seminar

Go to http://www.apept.org.

Latest IICM News

Site Location enhanced through MissionSite Report
Church Planters and their supporters spend considerable amount of time and energy attempting to find just the right site location for a new church start. The MissionSite Report draws together a comprehensive picture of the 0-3, 3-7, and 7-10 mile bands around any one of 65,399 U.S. census tract centroids. Cross-referenced against the SITESCAPE and the EVANGELSCAPE, the MissionSite report gives the spiritual barometer of an area as well as the cultural bridge, barriers, themes and shared projects and places needed to penetrate the unreached people groups in the community. (17 April 2009)

IICM Research Identifies US Locations with the Least ACTIVE Evangelical Presence
The "active evangelical presence" refers to an estimate of the number of households that actively participate in an evangelical church. Active participation is defined as attendance in corporate worship at least one weekend per month. Using data from Simmons Market Research Bureau, Experian's MOSAIC Segmentation, the AmericanChurch.org and the Glenmary Study, IICM has evaluated the 0-3 mile ring around each of the 65,399 US census tract centroids. Locations with the least active evangelical presence have been identified. These include 2,690 US locations with less than 2% active evangelical presence and 14,553 US locations with less than 5% active evangelical presence within a 3 mile radius. (12 March 2009)

IICM supports ALSBOM "Decade to Make a Difference"
The Alabama Baptist State Mission Board seeks to lead Alabama Baptists to "Make a Difference" in the coming decade of 2010-2020. IICM has conducted an analysis of the growth and decline patterns of Alabama Baptist churches. This MissionCraft report enables state and associational leaders to see forecast the number of church closures in the coming decade and the attendance shifts within various size churches. The MissionSite report provides detailed information on the least reached areas of the state. The MissionView report provides existing churches with the detailed information about their communities. (20 December 2008)

APEPT Missionality presented in Montgomery, AL
Sponsored by the Montgomery Baptist Association, a number of key leaders from three area Southern Baptist Associations took the APEPT Missionality Survey and attended the seminar. At the seminar participants learned how their APEPT giftedness shapes who they are, how they look at ministry, and the missional role(s) for which they are best suited. (28 October 2008)

Dallas Morning News: SBC at Crossroads
The voices in the wilderness of the Southern Baptist Convention have become a chorus. And the message is that the 16.3 million-member SBC, the nation's largest Protestant group, is in trouble. Sam Hodges at the Dallas Morning News discusses Frank Page's comment on the decline of the Southern Baptist Convention and relays an evaluation by IICM founder, Dr. Curt Watke. Read more (4 June 2008)

Georgia Baptist Convention Christian Index -- SBC Decline? (Interview of Dr. Curt Watke, IICM founder)
SBC President Frank Page’s recent prediction that Southern Baptists could lose half of their churches by 2030 may have been based on his private observations, but statistics show his cause for concern may be well-grounded. Without seeking to be an alarmist, researcher Curt Watke, executive director of the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry based here, says Page is closer to the truth than many may want to admit. Read the article (22 May 2008)