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The Diocese of Arizona Celebrate the Past • Embrace the Future

The Diocese of Arizona Celebrate the Past • Embrace the Future. 50 TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010. Remember BACK to the future ?. In it, a mad scientist finds a way to time-travel using a specially-equipped DeLorean car.

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The Diocese of Arizona Celebrate the Past • Embrace the Future

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  1. The Diocese of Arizona Celebrate the Past • Embrace the Future 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  2. RememberBACK to the future ? In it, a mad scientist finds a way to time-travel using a specially-equipped DeLorean car. Let’s watch as he gets the car up to 88 mphin order for it to go back in time!

  3. 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  4. Now let us travel back in time and see what our Diocese was like 50+ years ago. (Thanks to The Rev. Canon Ray Dugan and his film-making team you won’t need a DeLorean!) 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  5. We have come a long wayin 50 years! • 23,000 members • 65 congregations • 200+ clergy • eight schools • and countless community outreach projects and programs! 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  6. But “times they are a-changin’” “…about every 500 years the church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale.” - Phyllis Tickle “Our churches still function and even grow in places. But unless we can find the courage to snip the bands of modernism so that we can mature to our potential, we will die.”- Brian McLaren 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  7. Sometimes my job has been delivering “bad news” when old ways no longer work. But more exciting has been working with congregations that “think outside the box.” 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  8. You have already heard me talk a lot about: 1. Planting new congregations 2. Children and youth programs 3. Immigrant communities 4. Using new technology 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  9. What will the church of the future look like? 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  10. Here is what I see when I gaze into my crystal ball…. 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  11. But this is “through a glass, darkly” • Transformation, not revolution • Blend old and new approaches to church life • Parallel development 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  12. The future church will be:relational • Smaller, “house church” congregations • Alternative churches and leaders • Mission vs. buildings • Outwardly focused 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  13. The future church will be: “browner” • Changing demographics • Cultural refuges for new arrivals • Spanish-speaking congregations • More culturally sensitive 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  14. The future church will be: younger • “A little child shall lead them.” • Church, schools and “hang outs” • Key to congregation growth 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  15. The future church will be: wired • Virtual meetings • Social media • Multi-media • Internet word-of-mouth 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  16. The future church will be: leaner • Stewardship will be front and center • Old funding sources will be gone • Staff and clergy will be harder to fund • Opportunity for different kinds of congregational life 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  17. The buzz words for the next50 years? • Relational • Browner • Younger • Wired • Leaner Transformational! 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  18. Are you Ready? 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  19. The Future belongs to Godand to God’s people. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband… And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new!" – Revelation 21:1-5 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

  20. 50TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION > OCT. 15-16, 2010

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