New Wineskins for the 21st Century Church Clergy Breakfast and Leadership Series The wineskins that held the fruit of the vine in various institutional expressions of church in the past are not adequate for the emerging multiform, multiethnic, creative ferment that will give birth to God’s kingdom in new ways if we can find the wineskins to nurture and hold it. Dynamic, Organic and Alive: Re-Imagining Whole-Church Ministry for the 21st Century Breakfast: April 12, 2012 7:30 am - 9:00 am St. Peter's Lutheran Church Have you grown weary of trying to recruit and retain qualified volunteers? Of carrying a lonely burden of responsibility for healthy congregational ministry? In Scripture, the Church is described as a body in which each one does its part. Do you wonder whether the responsibilities and joys of ministry can truly be shared by the whole church rather than an overworked few? Can you imagine your congregation being truly dynamic, organic, and alive? At this breakfast we’ll hear from two co-pastors in a church that nurtures congregational life through a ‘whole-church,’ missional approach. Jo Ann Kunz and Tony Blair, Senior Pastors at Hosanna! (Lititz, PA) will share their experience of developing and implementing a model of permission-giving ministry that is more organic than mechanistic, that is as much about the journey as about the destination. Presenters: Tony Blair, President and Professor of Church History, Evangelical Seminary, Myerstown; and co-pastor at Hosanna! Jo Ann Kunz, Spiritual Director; Instructor in Spiritual Formation for Eastern University, Evangelical Seminary, and Oasis Ministries; and co-pastor at Hosanna! The breakfast and series are open to clergy and lay leaders. Participants wishing to further explore this topic manner may sign up for the following leadership series. To register, click here or call Barbara Tolbert, Partner Church Administrator, at 717-560-9969, extension 256. There is no charge for the breakfast for partner clergy; $10 all others. The series is $75 for partner clergy and $100 for all others. Three Session Leadership Series 8:00 am - 9:30 am May 3, 2012 Dynamic: Re-framing Ministry for the "Whole Church" Lee Bolman and Terrance Deal, in Reframing Organizations, showed us that there are at least four major frames through which leaders see their organizations. Many frustrations in ministry leadership derive from operating primarily through one frame; in our cultural setting we often default to the “structural frame” when organizing for ministry. Applying the work of Bolman and Deal to church life, this session will particularly explore how to re-frame from an “org-chart” approach to ministry to a more fluid, person-centered approach that taps into the passions and gifts of the whole congregation. May 10, 2012 Organic: Re-focusing Leadership for the "Whole Church" Leadership is often perceived as a lonely effort in which one over-burdened individual sets the course for the church and has the primary responsibility for motivating people to follow it. There is another way. Tapping into the ancient Hebrew understanding of the tripartite leadership of prophet, priest, and king, the facilitators have developed a “trioptic” model of diffused leadership that recognizes and nurtures leadership throughout the whole congregation. This session will briefly explain this model and provide practical guidance for applying this paradigm of leadership. May 17, 2012 Alive: Re-visioning the Journey for the "Whole Church" If faith is a journey, can your church nurture and serve people at every stage of the journey? Should it attempt to? Introducing and building on the six-stage developmental model of faith proposed by Janet Hagberg and Bob Guelich in The Critical Journey, the facilitators will demonstrate how an intentional ‘whole church’ approach to ministry can meet the varying and occasionally bewildering spiritual needs of individuals at different places in their faith journey. The session will also aid clergy in understanding their own stages of faith, and how that impacts how they lead others in ministry. All leadership groups are held at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, located at 750 Greenfield Road in Lancaster. The cost for each leadership series is $75 for partner clergy and $100 for others. This series is offered through the Samaritan Counseling Center's Clergy & Congregation Care program. Coaching · Education · Consultation · Clergy Groups · Ministry Assessment For more information about the above services, please contact Linda Crockett, Director of Clergy & Congregation Care at lcrockett@scclanc.org.
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