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Thriving Congregations is hosted by South Florida’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU), Florida Memorial University (FMU). While this program is open to all churches looking to enhance their congregational identity and impact, it is geared toward Black churches in South Florida and its neighboring vicinities. Black churches have been instrumental in building strong and healthy communities, but the reach of the Black church goes beyond Black communities, transforming the entire world around them. In order to strengthen the churches, FMU’s Thriving Congregations program will help churches explore their mission statements, ministries, and leadership with the support of a pastoral cohort, theology faculty and staff from the university, and a practical theologian. Twenty churches will be served each year, totaling 100 churches over the course of five years and beyond. HBCU’s have historically been supported by churches, and they will be able to partner in ways that will transform the academy, the church, and the society.