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CLERGY DAY ON THE DISTRICT

CLERGY DAY ON THE DISTRICT. “Seven Levers”. Bishop Peggy A. Johnson Fall 2014. What is a Lever?. Levers help us get things done Levers help us move things we otherwise couldn ’ t budge. Levers multiply results Critical operational focal points for change. load. effort. fulcrum.

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CLERGY DAY ON THE DISTRICT

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  1. CLERGY DAY ON THE DISTRICT “Seven Levers” Bishop Peggy A. Johnson Fall 2014

  2. What is a Lever? • Levers help us get things done • Levers help us move things we otherwise couldn’t budge • Levers multiply results • Critical operational focal points for change load effort fulcrum

  3. Seven Levers… A strategy for … Starting New Churches Clergy Peer Learning Congregational Intervention Cultivating Clergy Excellence load effort fulcrum

  4. … A strategy for … Aligning Budgets & Resources Creating Technically Elegant Governance Systems Reconfiguring Conference Sessions load effort fulcrum

  5. A Future With HopeThe Covenant Prayer I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt, Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed by thee, or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low by thee. Let me be full, let me be empty. Let me have all things, let me have nothing. I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.

  6. The First Lever: A Strategy for Starting New Churches load effort fulcrum

  7. What role does your congregation play in starting new churches? • What role do YOU play? load effort fulcrum

  8. The Second Lever: A Strategy for Clergy Peer Learning load effort fulcrum

  9. What’s the role of laity in cultivating clergy peer learning? • What peer learning is happening in PDC that is working well? load effort fulcrum

  10. The Third Lever: A Strategy for Congregational Intervention load effort fulcrum

  11. What role or responsibility do you think the conference holds for addressing decline in congregations? • What intervention models have worked worked well to reinvigorate congregations? load effort fulcrum

  12. The Fourth Lever: A Strategy for Cultivating Clergy Excellence load effort fulcrum

  13. What’s the role of laity in assuring excellence in clergy leadership? • What are you doing to invite gifted young people into the ministry? load effort fulcrum

  14. The Fifth Lever: A Strategy for Aligning Budgets & Resources load effort fulcrum

  15. What values and themes drive your conference’s efforts to align budgets toward the mission? • What’s the hardest financial decision your conference had made in recent years? load effort fulcrum

  16. The Sixth Lever: A Strategy for Creating Technically Elegant Governance Systems load effort fulcrum

  17. How user-friendly and intuitively understandable is your governance system? • How can we improve the structure of the conference? load effort fulcrum

  18. The Seventh Lever: A Strategy for Reconfiguring Conference Sessions load effort fulcrum

  19. What frustrates you most about conference sessions and why? • What would you say is the most important purpose of gathering for conference? load effort fulcrum

  20. ARE WE READY TO IMPLEMENT NEW STRATEGIES TO INSURE OUR FUTURE ?

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