Purpose: To provide a good beginning of the Christian experience and serve as an agent (1) to help assure the church that each new member understands the nature of the covenant relationship that he/she is entering and to nurture wholehearted commitment, (2) To help each new member gain a basic understanding of and commitment to the specific privileges of membership in the church he/she has joined, (3) To help each new member become a growing participant in the life and ministry of the Christian fellowship he/she has joined, enabling him/her to bear an increasingly effective Christian witness to the world