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2. Journey

3. 80 congregations in 6 clusters in Southern-Africa • Western-Cape: 20 congregations • Namibia: 8 congregations • Gauteng I: 10 congregations • Eastern-Cape: 7 congregations • Southern-Cape: 13 congregations • Gauteng II: 12 congregations • Kalahari 10 Congregations Methodist, Lutheran, Anglican, DRC, URC, DRCA Churches participate already.

4. Partnership for Missional Church • Grounded in experience • 20 years of experience (USA) • 3 years of experience (SA) • In over 81 congregations • Grounded in research • Longevity study

5. FOUR KEY FACTORS • Clustering congregations synergizes innovation

6. FOUR KEY FACTORS • Clustering congregations synergizes innovation • Innovating capacities works better than replacing capacities

7. FOUR KEY FACTORS • Clustering congregations synergizes innovation • Innovating capacities works better than replacing capacities • Congregations are key partners to innovation

8. FOUR KEY FACTORS • Clustering congregations synergizes innovation • Innovating capacities works better than replacing capacities • Congregations are key partners to innovation • Conflict can be employed for mission

9. Measured Outcomes Increase participation of young adults Worship attendance Participation in churchwide ministries Longevity of pastorate Adult conversions Increase in lay leader base

10. Partnership for Missional Church • Grounded in experience • 20 USA (3 in SA) years of experience • In over 71 (81 SA) congregations • Grounded in research • Longevity study • Grounded spiritual disciplines • Dwelling in the Word • Keeping the Main thing the Main thing • Corporate Spiritual Discernment

11. KEY: kickoff event clustergatherings Partnership for Missional Church Celebration event ! Phase 4 - Learning and Growing Phase 3 - Visioning for Embodiment Phase 2 - Experimenting Phase 1 - Discovering Preparation, finding leaders Sharing & Mentoring

12. During Phase I Congregations will receive . . . • 3 days of continuing education for your pastors/ministers • 5 days of lay leader training • A process for discovering the culture and readiness of your congregations for missional church along with 3 different reports illustrating the results • A board retreat to evaluate and engage learnings • Training for coaches and mentors • A step by step process for leaders of congregations to work together on a monthly basis • Phone loop: a bi-monthly phone meeting with a consultant/coach • On-line newsletter

13. During Phase II Congregations will receive . . . • 3 days of continuing education for your pastors/ministers • 5 days of lay leader training • A full assessment of leadership skills & capacities for leaders • 2 days of training for missional action teams • Phone loop: a bi-monthly phone meeting with a consultant/coach • 2 day board retreat • A step by step process for missional action teams • On-line newsletter

14. During Phase III Congregations will receive . . . • 3 days of continuing education for your pastors/ministers • 5 days of lay leader training • A process for creating 5 documents to guide congregations through the implementation of their plan • Congregational Confession • A Vision for Embodiment • Long Range Plans • SMART Plans of Action • A Staff Covenant • Phone loop: a bi-monthly phone meeting with a consultant/coach • On-line newsletter

15. During Phase IV Congregations will receive . . . • 3 days of continuing education for your pastors/ministers • 5 days of lay leader training • Plans for developing ministries and for helping members discover their God-given spiritual gifts and assist in placing them in an appropriate ministry • Phone loop: a bi-monthly phone meeting with a consultant/coach • On-line newsletter

16. Our context changes continuously and is complex of nature. David Bosch describes one of the changes as a shift from Christendom to Post-Christendom. The implications are enormous for both the assumptions and focus of the local congregations ministry

17. Christendom assumptions • We live in a christen culture • The church is a central force in the community • The focus of the local congregation should be to maintain the Christendom in its geographical area • Ministry= hatching, matching and dispatching

18. Word has it that more than 80% of sailboat owners never sails further than 20km from the harbor, notwithstanding the fact that the jach was bought and maintained to undertaken a world race - in the christendom paradigm it is the painful truth of congregations - we maintain the congregation for the sake of God’s main calling, but never undertake the race

19. Post-Christendom implications for local congregations • The Christendom assumption lost its power • That does not necessarily spells the end of the church- but we should look seriously into the implications of the shift • It is not for us to chouse a Christendom or Post-Christendom world -God is sending us into a post-Christendom world.

20. Post-christendom realities • Biblically illiterate • Ritually incompetent • Highly self-conscious • Trauma or stress • Disillusioned with the institution • Undefined spiritual hunger • Feel shamed by the church

21. What Does It Mean To Be Missional?

22. Quadrant III • Closed-DoorCommunity • Focused on being a “good” church, but only for us • Quadrant IV • Missional Church • Both congregational life and outreach focused on God’s mission • Quadrant I • Religious Club,or Spiritual Filling Station • “Meet my needs” • Quadrant II • Church with a Mission • Focused on evangelism and/or social action

23. 1. Club or spiritual filling station

24. Quadrant III • Closed-DoorCommunity • Focused on being a “good” church, but only for us • Quadrant IV • Missional Church • Both congregational life and outreach focused on God’s mission • Quadrant I • Religious Club,or Spiritual Filling Station • “Meet my needs” • Quadrant II • Church with a Mission • Focused on evangelism and/or social action

25. 3. Close door community

26. Quadrant III • Closed-DoorCommunity • Focused on being a “good” church, but only for us • Quadrant IV • Missional Church • Both congregational life and outreach focused on God’s mission • Quadrant I • Religious Club,or Spiritual Filling Station • “Meet my needs” • Quadrant II • Church with a Mission • Focused on evangelism and/or social action

27. 2. Church with a mission

28. Quadrant III • Closed-DoorCommunity • Focused on being a “good” church, but only for us • Quadrant IV • Missional Church • Both congregational life and outreach focused on God’s mission • Quadrant I • Religious Club,or Spiritual Filling Station • “Meet my needs” • Quadrant II • Church with a Mission • Focused on evangelism and/or social action

29. 4. Missonal church

31. Missional or being send • We want to participate in God’s mission of reconciling, restoring, and redeeming a world in need of God’s grace. • We engage in spiritual discernment to discover specifically how God is sending us so that we may be better partners for one another in God's work. • The mission field is no longer only in foreign countries but among us; congregations are the mission centers for the Christian church today. • “in our homes …. across the street ….. all over the world”

32. What is expected of a minister in the first three churches?

33. The innovative Missional Leadership and Change • Innovating is a process of failure emerging from a Christian imagination and wisdom and leading to a shared positive outcome.

34. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation Model of Change and the Partnership for Missional Church

35. Change rarely happens in a straight line, directly from Point A to Point B In fact, it looks more like the path of a sailboat, riding the wind to get to its destination.

36. This is especially true as a whole culture changes.

37. Everett Rogers declares that there are even five different stages that members of a culture go through when they have met a change… adoption trial evaluation interest awareness

38. Confirmation – seeking reinforcement or overturning of the decision 5 stages of decision-making Decision – adopt or reject the new thing Knowledge – awareness and understanding of a new thing Persuasion – favorable or unfavorable attitude toward the new thing Implementation – putting the new thing to use

39. People’s openness to change Laggards 16% “the traditional” Late majority 34% “the skeptical” • Early majority 34% “the thoughtful” Early adopters 13.5% “the respectable” Innovators 2.5% “the brave”

40. Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Cluster event Partnership for a Missional Church Capacity 4 - learning and growing Capacity 3 - visioning for action Capacity 2 - Experimenting Capacity 1 - discovery Preparation, finding leaders

41. Learning and growing Open to do, risk, fail Renewal Innovated Capacity Build do-able plans, recognize walls Visioning for Acting II (long range plans, hitting the wall) Open to God’s work Missional Authority – pattern 8, for example Discern God’s preferred future Event journey LEGEND Open to consensus, leadership Harness energy, start a plan Open to listen Practices – pattern 4, for example Growing Healthier Congregations Speak, think, imagine Open to after-Christendom Listening leaders Worship as Witness –pattern 5, for example Gathering Event (after-Christendom and congregational discovery training) Visioning for Acting I (mission, vision, and pattern claiming) Experimenting Missional ministry; teams Discern mission, gather participation Discern mission, gather participation Open to new way Open to focus, not dispersion Open to focus, not dispersion The Partnership for a Missional Church

43. How does all this happen? • Discovering • Experimenting • Visioning for Acting • Learning and Growing • Sharing and Mentoring

44. Five Questions That Missional Congregations Ask • Where are we? Missional congregations are aware of their contexts. They know that Christendom is vanishing. They cannot expect that everyone around them is Christian. They know that they live in the midst of a mission field. • Whose are we? Missional congregations know they belong to the people of God. They are letting Scripture and prayer shape them as individuals and as a congregation. They let God’s Spirit work through them and empower them to take risks for the sake of the gospel. • What is God doing? Missional congregations can point to how God is acting among them and in the wider world. They are learning more about God’s mission of redeeming, restoring, and reconciling the world through Jesus Christ. • How is God sending us? Missional congregations know how to discern and listen to God’s specific call to them. They know their missional vocation and are willing to act on that. They are reaching out across boundaries for the sake of the gospel. • How is our church living now according to the pattern of God’s future? Missional congregations want to be a sign of God’s way of doing things. They want to order their life as a congregation so that it is a preview of the future God intends for the whole world. They give witness to Jesus Christ in their outreach as they invite others to become citizens of God’s reign. And they give witness to Jesus Christ in all of their life together as a congregation. How they are church is also a witness to the gospel.

45. Dedicated to Diversity The Leading congregations in each cluster consists of a pair of congregations which represent diversity in terms of denomination and community.

46. Structure of the Partnership Participating congregations represented by the leading congregations. The leading congregations with the project leaders constitute the Management committee. Buvton does the project management of the partnership.

47. Questions and discussion

48. Notebook coveror DVD opening shot of turning globe