Why A.C.M.E?

A.C.M.E. stands for the Association of Churches for Missions and Evangelism. ACME (I’m going to stop using the periods now because it takes more effort than this parenthetical explanation I am writing to inform you of my cessation of such keyboard monotony) at this point is the only official group or entity with which we at King’s Fellowship are associated. The reason for this is simple: we wanted to team up with other local churches for the advancement of the gospel here and abroad, and this association is the most like us in all things. I am sure we will associate in some capacity with other groups in the future, but if you picture these associations as a target with concentric circles, the closer to the center being those churches more like us, then ACME is the bullseye.
 
We had to go through a relatively extensive process of their investigating our foundational documents and our processes to make sure that we aligned with their core values and requirements before we were accepted; this included things like expositional preaching,  meaningful membership and discipline, elder-led congregational polity, one unified assembly, biblically oriented public worship, church-centric missions & evangelism, historic baptistic ecclesiology, and reformed soteriology. To literally all of those we shout, “YES AND AMEN!” So, naturally, what makes this association so attractive to us is that all of the churches that are part of ACME profess all of these values and have been through the same investigation, and so all of the decisions about funding missionary efforts and church planting efforts are being driven by these distinctives.
 
There will likely be times that we are willing to compromise on one or more of these things in order to support a Christian brother if we deem the work worthy despite such things, but with our giving to ACME we can have great confidence in the kind of work and the kind of churches that are being supported through our money; only ACME churches are able to submit applications for ACME funding grants.

This association allows churches to come together, pulling funds to do more than we would be capable of doing on our own. ACME states that ideally, each church would give between 2-4% of its annual budget; we plan to honor this and potentially exceed it each year, if the Lord wills.

We see in the Bible that healthy churches know and encourage one another (Rom 16:16, Eph 6:22), strengthen one another (Ac 14:22), and are generous with one another (Ac 13:22, 29, 3 Jn 7-8). We are not competing with other churches, they are not against us, they are for us.


ACME is a very young association having just begun in 2024; we were one of the first hundred churches accepted. If you want to see what the money was used for since 2024, you can see that here: https://acmefellowship.org/grants

(There is a conference every year where we celebrate what God has done through the giving of ACME churches, if you are a member of King’s WE WOULD LOVE for you to join us; reach out to one of the pastors with interest.)