ECEF is in the process of becoming a CPC initiated 501(c)3 corporation being organized to provide oversight, financial and other resources to support economic empowerment projects and services in churches planted by CPC in the greater New Haven area. Examples would be a service and merchandise co-op store, health counseling services for greater New Haven, mortgage lending, and micro-enterprises such as a landscaping or car detailing business, home improvement trades, or office cleaning services.

Whether it takes the form of spiritual empowerment through leadership teaching and training or economic empowerment in the form of micro-enterprise, gospel-centered empowerment is church-based empowerment.