Our Mission

All NCS chapters share the mission of NCS that was adopted in 2025.

New Canaan Society is a network of marketplace men who gather to encourage and disciple one another in abiding friendship with Jesus and authentic friendship with each other.

Our NCS New Canaan chapter also remembers and honors the mission statement that was adopted for NCS in 2007 and guided NCS and its chapters for nearly two decades. It was the product of months of prayerful discernment and refinement by NCS co-founder Jim Lane and the original group of chapter leaders. It was reaffirmed in 2018 by the largest gathering of NCS chapter leaders ever assembled. We believe it reflected the DNA of NCS.

NCS New Canaan is a network of men joined by a common desire for a deep and abiding friendship with Jesus, and lasting and transparent friendships with each other. The mission and purpose of NCS New Canaan is to connect men who seek and value such friendships, to work together in partnership and to encourage and equip each other to experience personal transformation, in an environment of trust and acceptance. Through friendship, partnership and transformation, we will have a positive and powerful impact on our families, our communities, the marketplace and the world.

This is a huge challenge. But in truth, fulfilling that Mission is happening every day, in small ways and in large, throughout the network of NCS chapters, in lives of men who have committed themselves to friendship with each other and friendship with Jesus.

The notion of “friendship with Jesus” may seem an alien idea to some. But we know it is otherwise. The New Testament accounts tell us that Jesus ate with “publicans and sinners” and this was the basis for the smear campaign that he was a “friend of sinners.” What those slanderers failed to see was that they, just as we, are all sinners needing a friend like Him.