Calling all ministry leaders committed to revitalizing our faith communities!
A Recent VideoConference introduction
Here is a WebEx Connection Demo Video
For the next two Wednesday evenings (July 27th and August 3rd) at 5 o’clock Eastern, ministry redevelopers from around the Episcopal Church will come together in a videoconference, online. We will spend 90 minutes rolling out a new coaching initiative for Intentional Redevelopers across the Episcopal Church.
Several of our Church’s 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 if I can further explain any of the following description to you, I’d be happy to!
In short, we would like to invite the ministry leaders (lay and ordained) there in your corner of our Church whom you believe would be blessed to have this support. (For more information, please read on or click here: http://bit.ly/jAGh8l )
With high hopes for the ministries we share,
Tom Brackett (Direct line: 646-203-6266)
A brief description of missio:engage
The goal of missio:engage (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.
Measurable outcomes:
ð Transformed and outwardly-turned faith community.
ð Multiple streams of newcomers and visitors from the surrounding communities.
ð A developed and refined process of incorporation leading to a Strengths-based approach to ministry formation for all.
ð Core leadership development on multiple levels.
ð The critical mass necessary to engage in sustainable missional ministries.
ð A real-time, on the ground reconnection (or “re-rooting”) in the ministry context.
Assumptions:
ð This is a covenanted two year ministry adventure. It is specifically focused on the systematic redevelopment of parish ministries that have struggled with decline.
ð Each site has a Team of five, led by lay leader. This team does not include the Rector.
ð Each team member can expect to spend about four hrs/week on this ministry.
ð 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.
ð 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.
ð 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 .
Process:
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.
Focus areas for Training & Coaching:
Orientation and Overview Session
Community Exploration -- Testing MissionInsite Survey
Refine target communities
Signage and Space audit
Making safe space for the Newcomer to discover and engage
Letter campaign
Visitor Follow-up
New Member Incorporation
24 month Calendar & planning Event Evangelism
Managing the lists & Tending our nets
Preaching the Gospels for the Newcomer
Clergy Leadership Roles
Melissa Team
Greeters and Vestry Training
Reflecting on our Experiences – Going public as a Community of Practice
Here is where you go to connect to the session and learn more between now and then: http://bit.ly/jAGh8l
Thomas Brackett invites you to participate as an attendee in the following online training session:
Topic: missio:engage introductory sessions
Host: Thomas Brackett
Date: Every Wednesday, from Wednesday, July 13, 2011 to Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Time: 5:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Session number: 737 867 107
Session password: ecc2011
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To join the training session
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1. Go to https://dfmstraining.webex.com/dfmstraining/k2/j.php?ED=150851467&UID=0&HMAC=7afd6197b6e64f7fcdc5387314a33f9876fb0182&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: ecc2011
4. Click "Join Now".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link
https://dfmstraining.webex.com/dfmstraining/k2/j.php?ED=150851467&UID=0&HMAC=7afd6197b6e64f7fcdc5387314a33f9876fb0182&ORT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
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To join the session by phone only
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To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the training session, or call the number below and enter the access code.
Call-in toll number (US/Canada):
+1-408-600-3600
Access code: 737 867 107
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For assistance
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You can contact Thomas Brackett at:
tbrackett@episcopalchurch.org
To add this session to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link.
http://www.webex.com
