Mission
The mission of MCECS is:

- To promote Christian literacy
- To involve the general public in events, lectures, and international travel
- To develop an endowment for public lectures and university courses
- To develop a center for early Christian studies at the University of Michigan that is internationally recognized as the preeminent center for the interdisciplinary study of Christian origins and antiquity
- To support the Enoch Seminar, an international network of scholars
- To encourage shared research related to Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins
- To create an online newsletter
Goals
To accomplish its mission, the MCECS has the following goals:
- To develop and present events, lectures, and international travel that promote the study of early Christianity for the general public
- To seek support to:
- fund endowed Ph.D. student fellowships to study and conduct research on early Christanity
- award annual prizes for students studying early Christian topics
- fund an ongoing university lecture series on early Christianity
- fund endowed professorships in early Christian studies
- fund a research center within the University of Michigan to conduct scholarly research on early Christianity.