Program Summaries
"Grounded In God"
Decision-Making Group Workshop For Church Mission Statements
Overview
This workshop has been created to introduce the spiritual consensus-based approach to the group's deliberations and decision-making for this specific setting. Participants will learn methods for incorporating our Discernment Listening Guidelines into the process. As a result of attending our program, the group's approach to making choices that relate to the mission statement's contents is opened up to the life-giving, life-changing power of the Spirit. The workshop builds on the Discernment Listening Guidelines contained in our publication, Grounded in God. Participants learn to incorporate a new approach, moving away from a strictly secular, Robert's Rules of Order way of doing business. Attendees find themselves growing closer to God and to one another as they begin to prepare for the important task ahead of them.
Intended Audience
The Mission Statement workshop is a one-day program designed to prepare a committee or congregation intending to create - or refine - a congregational mission statement to carry out its work in a spirit of true spiritual discernment. The program can easily be adapted for other types of faith-based groups or organizations desiring to undergo a similar process.
Program Content Summary
The agenda blends a variety of activities that draw participants directly into the learning process. An overview of the basic concepts underlying spiritual discernment is presented to give attendees a common reference point. The Discernment Listening Guidelines are reviewed and discussed. The group then formulates its own unique question for discernment directly related to its overall mission goals and objectives. From there, participants begin to experience first hand the concepts being covered as they work to arrive at spiritual consensus on the topic. A selection of hymns and prayers that complement the presentations and exercises are included at multiple points in the program. Opportunities for participants to share their reflections with other attendees help to round out the workshop.
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