On July 6th at 5 o’clock Eastern time, ministry redevelopers from around the Episcopal Church will come together in a videoconference, online. They will spend 90 minutes rolling out a new coaching initiative for Intentional Redevelopers across the Episcopal Church. All ministry leaders (lay and ordained) who would be blessed to have this support should join in. (For more information or to join in click here: http://bit.ly/jAGh8l )
Several preeminent redevelopers have banded together to demonstrate what works in turning congregations around, in real time. This Community of Practice would like to connect with the intentional redevelopers across the church and share the learnings, directly.
The initiative is called “missio:engage” and the goal (stage one) is to assist communities of faith in the process of re-rooting their ministries in the communities they are called to serve, with enough critical mass “back home” that this initiative is sustainable and avoids “burnout.” This is part of a Community of Practice that is committed to learning publicly in the service of the Episcopal Church at large.
How will it work?
Over a period of sixty days, Tom Brackett will work with a team of coaches to train a core group of leaders in each participant parish. Each member of the team will be dedicated to this ministry, alone. Over the following two years, that core group will learn how to offer radical welcome to newcomers in their community, move visitors from being newcomers to fully-formed leaders, reconnect with the realities emerging in the communities they are called to serve and offer relevant outreach that offers God’s grace in ways meaningful to their communities. By the end of the two year period, each of the members of the group will have identified, trained and nurtured their replacement.
The Measurable outcomes:
• Transformed and outwardly-turned faith community.
• Multiple streams of newcomers and visitors from the surrounding communities.
• A developed and refined process of incorporation leading to a Strengths-based approach to ministry formation for all.
• Core leadership development on multiple levels.
• critical mass necessary to engage in sustainable missional ministries.
• A real-time, on the ground reconnection (or “re-rooting”) in the ministry context.
The Assumptions:
• This is a covenanted two year ministry adventure. It is specifically focused on the systematic redevelopment of parish ministries that have struggled with decline.
• Each site has a Team of five, led by lay leader. This team does not include the Rector.
• Each team member can expect to spend about four hrs/week on this ministry.
• Each site will enter into a covenant with each other, with their Vestry/Bishop’s Committee, with their Rector/PiC as well as with Reverend Tom Brackett to learn together and practice what has been proven to work in this venture.
• Each site will also share their learnings and discoveries with the church at large via a dedicated website. There will be many others joining us in this venture. They will not have entered into these covenants but they will learn simultaneously with us and from these ministry case studies.
• Each site pays the expenses on their end. The cost of participating in this coaching initiative is born by my portion of the Episcopal Church Center’s budget .
For more information or to join in click here: http://bit.ly/jAGh8l
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