Lay Leadership Days - Schedule

9:30                        coffee

10:00                     Welcome, sharing expectations, housekeeping

10:05                     Experiencing the Present Challenges of the Church

10:20                     Worshipful Reflection

10:30                     Leading the Church as it Faces These Challenges

10:50                     Feedback to larger group

11:00                     Discerning the attributes of a missional leader?

11:15                     Seven Characteristics of a Missional Leader

11:45                     Lunch

12:30                     Worshipful Reflection

12:40                     What is required of us?  Where do we need to be going?

1:10                        Feedback to larger group

1:25                        What is happening with Strategic Plan

1:55                        Feedback - How do you see the strategic plan unfolding in your own parish/area? (parish          groups)

2:25                        Resources for Congregational Development

2:45                        Worshipful reflection (What I am going to do)

2:55                        Evaluate the day

3:00                        Head home

Clergy Day Agenda - January 19, 2012

Clergy Day – January 19, 2012

Agenda

9:15 a.m.              Coffee, Registration

9:45 a.m.              Worship

10:00 a.m.           Guest Speaker – The Rev. Paul Borthistle

                                Theme: Building the Bridge as you Walk                                                              Upon It!

Finding strategic direction for a parish is giving shape and form to the call of God’s Spirit in the life of the parish as we together answer God’s call to mission.  It celebrates where God has been present and invites us more deeply into God’s future.

Our time together will focus on hearing the parish story and voice and assessing our mission and our resources.  We will use the resources of the Appreciative Way (Appreciative Inquiry) as tools to open the parish to God’s preferred future.

Bio for the Rev. Paul Borthistle

Paul is currently the interim priest at St. Mary – Kerrisdale in the Diocese of New Westminster.  For ten years (2000 to 2010) he served as the Director for Parish Support Ministries in the diocese.  During this time he worked extensively with parishes and the diocese in developing tools and processes for determining and actualizing strategic direction.  He is a ‘third career’ priest, having prior careers in lay ministry and business before becoming a parish priest in 1990.

Paul is a practitioner of the Appreciative Way (applied Appreciative Inquiry) as he seeks out what is the best that we have to offer to God, neighbour and ourselves

12:15 p.m.           Lunch

1:00 p.m.             Conclusion of Paul Borthistle’s  presentation

1:30 p.m.             Introduction to Capital Campaign (Richard Salt)

1:40 p.m.             Stewardship Conversation (John Robertson)

2:00 p.m.             Capital Campaign details (Amanda Gellman)

2:15 p.m.             Small groups focusing on how to go back to the parish and set priorities for the capital campaign

3:00 p.m.             Report back session with Amanda, John and Richard co-facilitating

3:30 p.m.             Homeward Bound

Alban - Building Up Congregations and Their Leaders

Alban - Building Up Congregations and Their Leaders