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Pathways to Parish Vitality May 2011 Conference

Pathways to Parish Vitality May 2011 Conference. Pathways to Parish Vitality May 2011 Conference. Workshop Topics Envisioning Your Parish in 2016 Reviewing the Innovation Design Process Exploring Innovations in Parish Life Applying the Design Process in Your Parish

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Pathways to Parish Vitality May 2011 Conference

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  1. Pathways to Parish VitalityMay 2011 Conference

  2. Pathways to Parish VitalityMay 2011 Conference Workshop Topics • Envisioning Your Parish in 2016 • Reviewing the Innovation Design Process • Exploring Innovations in Parish Life • Applying the Design Process in Your Parish • Finding Resources & Building Capacity-Building for Parish Innovations • Introducing Innovations: Facilitating a Change Initiative • Pathways Project Development

  3. Lifelong Faith Resources

  4. www.faithformation2020.net

  5. www.LifelongFaith.com

  6. www.FaithFormationLearningExchange.net

  7. Design Process

  8. Design Process

  9. Generating Ideas

  10. Designing an Implementation Plan • What are the dates and times? • What is the location: physical/facility and/or online/website? • What are the implementation steps and target dates (timeline) for completing each step. • What resources will you need to implement the initiative. • How much will the initiative cost? • How many leaders will you need to implement the initiative, how you will find them, and how you will prepare them?

  11. Illustrations of Innovations

  12. Diversity of Models • Face-to-Face • Virtual • On Your Own • At Home • In Small Group • In Large Group • In Church • In Community & World Spiritual & Religious Needs Topics or Themes

  13. Example: From Diverse Settings to a Congregational Gathering • Bible study taking place across the whole congregation: on you own, family@home, small group, lecture series, family/intergenerational program culminating In • A whole-church, intergenerational gathering (meal, sharing, prayer, Bible learning experiences) for all ages who participated in the Bible study

  14. Preparing for a New Lectionary Cycle

  15. Extending Sunday Worship into Everyday Life

  16. Family Faith Practice

  17. Faith Formation for Spiritual Seekers • Offer a guided process for spiritually hungry people to become spiritually committed and join in small communities with other seekers for spiritual growth and support. • Create new expressions of Christian community designed especially for spiritual seekers. • Offer an apprenticeship in discipleship for spiritually hungry people who want to grow in relationship with Jesus Christ and the Christian way of life.

  18. Faith Formation for Spiritual Seekers

  19. Faith Formation for Spiritual Seekers Introduction Dinner: Is there more to life than this?  Week 1: Who is Jesus?  Week 2: Why did Jesus die?  Week 3: How can we have faith?  Week 4: Why and how do I pray?  Week 5: Why and how should I read the Bible?  Week 6: How does God guide us?  Week 7: How can I resist evil?  Week 8: Why & how should we tell others?  Week 9: Does God heal today?  Week 10: What about the Church?  Weekend: Who is the Holy Spirit? What does the Holy Spirit do? How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit? How can I make the most of the rest of my life?

  20. Pathways to Vibrant Faith & Active Engagement • Develop processes that gradually deepen people’s relationship with Jesus Christ, their engagement in church life, and their practice of the Christian faith with a special focus on the needs of the “spiritual but not religious” (Scenario 2) and “the uncommitted but ”participating” (Scenario 4.)

  21. Pathways to Vibrant Faith & Active Engagement Our Lady of Soledad Catholic Parish • Mini-Retreat 101: “Catholics Alive!” • “What does it mean to be a follower of Christ?” • Mini-Retreat 201: “Alive and Growing Spiritually!” • maturing in the Catholic faith • Mini-Retreat 301: “Alive and Gifted!” • discerning how to serve God in ministry • Mini-Retreat 401: “Alive in the World!” • living as witnesses for Christ, as contagious Catholic Christians • Mini-Retreat 501: “Alive to Praise God!” • Catholic worship and the sacraments

  22. Empowering the Community to Share their Faith • Empower people of vibrant faith and active engagement in the church community—individuals, small groups, and the whole faith community—to share their faith with those who not involved in a church community or spiritually committed.

  23. Empowering the Community to Share their Faith …evangelism is anything you say or do to help another person move into closer relationship with God, or into Christian community. (George Hunter III) The heart of evangelism is having an alive relationship with God, being part of a church you love, and caring that people outside the church find what you’ve discovered. (Martha Grace Reese) Evangelism is to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and others to bring one person one step closer to Christ. (Evangelical Covenant Church)

  24. Empowering the Community to Share their Faith

  25. Empowering the Community to Share their Faith • Step One. Church Leader’s Study: Unbinding the Gospel • Step Two: All-Church Saturation Study: Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing. • six-week, church-wide, small group E-vent! • pray each day’s scripture and prayer exercise and work with a prayer partner • study a chapter of the book with their small group • worship with sermons, music, and prayers centered on the week’s chapter

  26. Empowering the Community to Share their Faith • Step Three: An Experiment in Prayer and Community: Unbinding Your Soul. • a no-obligation experience of substantial spiritual discussion, prayer and community for people who aren’t connected with a church • church members invite their friends into a four-week small group experience with short study chapters, an individual prayer journal, prayer partner activities, and group exercises.

  27. Design: Physical & Virtual Settings

  28. Parish Website: Planning Checklist • Who is the audience? • Planning—visit other sites. • Reflect on what you are: what are your core values and how do you want to say that? • Define a reasonable scope and get buy-in from stake-holders in the congregation. • Do an easy survey of your audience—what are they looking for, what do they expect? • Decide on the types of content to include (+ graphics). • Map out your basic navigation (7 buckets is about all a person can digest). • Pick the technology or platform. • Create the design. • Build your content . • Release the site.

  29. Faith Formation Curator

  30. Faith Formation Curator • Shifting from providing religious content and programming to curating religious content and experiences for all ages • A content curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes, and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific subject to match the needs of a specific audience.

  31. The Process of Curation

  32. Curating the Bible

  33. Curating Print

  34. Curating Print

  35. Curating Online Courses

  36. Curating Digital Resources YouVersion Bible App

  37. Curating Websites

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