
Healthy Ministry Resources
Healthy Ministry Resources is the national office of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, USA. Our main focus is serving our member churches. That’s where the real work of our denomination happens. Without those churches, we have no reason to exist.
Our mission is: “to effectively resource pastors and congregations of the US National Conference to fulfill the Great Commission.”
We do whatever we can to help our churches flourish.
- Provide expertise and resources to churches.
- Train, encourage, and support our pastors.
- Oversee a variety of cooperative ministries, such as our missions work, the pension program for ministers, and others.
- Facilitate a sense of connectedness among our churches.
Healthy Ministry Resources handles all cooperative ministries of the US National Conference. Here are some of the services under the umbrella of Healthy Ministry Resources.
- The Office of the Bishop.
- Global Ministries (the United Brethren missions entity).
- Church planting.
- The Pastoral Ministry Leadership Team, which handles ministerial licensing, ordination, and stationing.
- Oversight of cluster groups.
- The United Brethren Bookstore, which ships Sunday school literature and other materials to several hundred churches every quarter.
- Communications services (websites, newsletters, print materials, etc.).
- Pension services for UB ministers.
- The Women’s and Youth ministry teams.
- The Higher Education Leadership Team, which oversees Huntington University.
- Overseeing various UB events (US National Conference, workshops, training events, etc.).
- Other leadership teams, study committees, and groups which may arise as needed.

The national office has been located in Huntington, Ind., since 1897, when the office moved from Dayton, Ohio. Huntington University (initially called Central College) was built the same year.
Healthy Ministry Resources occupies its own building on the north side of Huntington, right next to Huntington University. The HU Graduate School and EXCEL Adult Education Program share offices in the same building.