09/08/2026
Presiding prelates, bishops, and apostles governing their own autonomous or autocephalous jurisdictions (fellowships, alliances, networks, communions, councils, unions and churches), you don't have to walk alone!!
Through Blessed Kingdom International Ministries, we have both BKIM Fellowship of Covenant Churches and the BKIM Joint Synod. The BKIM Joint Synod is an interdenominational body purposed to:
1) continually form presiding prelates, bishops, and apostles with their own God-given works; 2) provide a means of accountability amongst one another without a presider's jurisdiction being completely absorbed into BKIM Fellowship of Covenant Churches, wherein presiders are personally covenanted to Blessed Kingdom International Ministries so that they can have something that is more than a covering; and 3) become an international, ecumenical synod where like-minded presiders can fellowship with one another and reach consensuses which are only binding upon those accepting them.
Completely self-headed and self-governed jurisdictions (or autocephalous bodies) can become accepted within the BKIM Joint Synod and govern themselves freely, whilst acknowledging that any credentials received through Blessed Kingdom International Ministries must be accredited upon departure.
And semi-independent (or autonomous) jurisdictions submit to governance by the mother fellowship—for though all autonomous prelates and their jurisdictions have administrative privileges that are not given to ordinaries or metropolitan-provincial bishops, they are still completely accountable and subject to disciplinary action and all other things appertaining to BKIM Fellowship of Covenant Churches. This is because while they (the autonomous organizations) are free to govern themselves and devise their own manuals or constitutions, their documents may not usurp or seek to overthrow their higher authority which is this BKIM Book of Common Discipline. Additionally, all autonomous prelatures must have their leaders either appointed by the Presidium of BKIM Fellowship of Covenant Churches; or they must have their desired leaders confirmed by the same—and, there are provisions for complete independence (or autocephaly) after 5 to 10 years of stable growth, putting them on par with the other autocephalous institutions and their delegates in this synod.
Don't lead alone. There is a more excellent way!!
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