Calvary Ministries, Inc., International is not a denomination; it is a fellowship which...

• cooperates with the local church

• communicates with the local church

• helps strengthen and establish the local church

• assists the local church

• provides for the local church

• protects the local church

• encourages the local church

CMI and the local church work in tandem, producing the following:

• confident relationships

• enlarged fellowship

• working structures

• practical vision

• mutual cooperation and accountability

• enlarged missions programming

• broader consultation

Some benefits of belonging to CMI are...

• assistance for church planting (i.e. incorporation, the establishment of structure, fund raising itinerating,
  the filing of State and Federal forms)

• access to the general blanket tax exempt status as a member organization

• the assurance the local church may be perpetuated after and through difficulty

• the availability of pastoral candidates

• strengthened accountability through membership identification

• avenues for practical, structural, managerial, and functional guidelines in establishing the local church

• the advantage of a corporate voice in the General Assembly of the Fellowship