1. Building fellowship and community between churches.
2. Providing training opportunities for churches and leaders to be more effective.
3. Being a resource center for Christian ministries.
4. Assisting churches to find needs in their communities and to determine how to meet those needs.
5. Planting new churches and nurturing existing ones along with their missions.
6. Fostering cooperative mission efforts.
7. Promoting world missions.
8. Maintaining effective relationships with other Southern Baptist entities.