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  • RESOURCING TEAM

The Resourcing Team provides guidance and input to the presbytery as well as be resources themselves to provide opportunities for learning. The team is made up of church leaders who demonstrate the skill sets needed to provide workshops and identify learning material for the presbytery.

Workshops

Workshops allow us to facilitate learning around relevant topics that help churches fulfill their mission. The workshops are held at local locations and at times which invite participation. The topics are chosen by local congregational leaders (vs. a topic we think a congregation a needs). When a workshop is facilitated by the Resourcing Coordinator or sponsored by the Resourcing Team, it is open to all our churches. This encourages participation between congregations.

We have identified trained church leaders who can lead workshops and/or resource you in determining your needs in the following areas:

HEALTHY CONGREGATIONS

Healthy Congregations is an interfaith organization that understands the times in which we live in. We equip leaders for challenges of thinking more clearly about families, relationships, and faith communities. Our resources and training are based on seeing all communities as living systems that incorporate thinking, feeling, responsibility, and purpose. Healthy Congregations, Inc. has created educational resources and leadership development material designed with the purpose of encouraging healthier, clearer and deeper individual and community life based on the contributions of leaders in the field of Bowen Theory and congregational life.

The following workshops can be presented as one-day retreats.

Workshop 1: Creating Healthy Congregations

Session 1: What is System Thinking?

Session 2: DVD: “The Anxious Congregation,” “The Responsible Congregation”

Session 3: Healthy Congregations Accept Differences

Session 4: Healthy Congregations Focus on Strength

Session 5: Healthy Congregations Focus on Mission

Workshop 2: Healthy Congregations Respond to Anxiety and Change

Session 1: Healthy Congregations Respond to Anxiety

Session 2: Healthy Congregations Manage Conflict

Session 3: Healthy Congregations Respond to Change

Session 4: Healthy Congregations Act Flexibly and Creatively

Session 5: Planning for a Healthier Future

Workshop 3: Leadership in Healthy Congregations

Session 1: The Self-Differentiated Leader

Session 2: DVD: “Healthy Leaders”

Session 3: Leaders Promote Health Through Their Presence and Functioning

Session 4: Leaders Challenge People

Session 5: Leaders Provide Immune Capacities

Workshop 4: Relationships in Healthy Congregations

Session 1: Forgiving

Session 2: Truthtelling

Session 3: Connecting

Session 4: DVD: “Healthy Helping”

Session 5: The Difficult Business of Helping

Workshop 5: Healthy Congregations Develop Generous People

Session 1: Life is All of a Piece

Session 2: The Stewardship of All Believers

Session 3: Money Talks

Session 4: Anxiety and Money

Session 5; People and Resources

Workshop 6: Spiritual Care of Healthy Congregations

Session 1: Holiness and Health

Session 2: Hospitality

Session 3: Helping People to Begin Again

Session 4: DVD: “The Spirit of Spirits”

Session 5: A Different Kind of Health

Healthy Congregations requires that Workshop 1 be presented before the others. If you are only interested in Workshop 5 (Stewardship), it would require an additional retreat day to present Workshop 1.

Contact Rev. Robin Miller Currás if you would like any of these workshops presented for your congregation.

DISCERNMENT STUDIES

Discovering and Connecting the Pieces of Our Church: A Journey of Searching, Listening, and Discernment

This process is intentionally designed to assist the congregation and the leadership to reflect on their history, discern their gifts, and encourage new leaders. This process is also about discerning where God is calling and to whom God is calling the congregation to minister with in their future. The process leads the congregation through discernment, prayer, “Dwelling in the Word,” listening to each other, and lots of conversations around the questions of God’s call.

This process was designed by our Presbytery Leader, Jeanne Radak, but several church leaders have been trained to lead this process.

Rev. Robin Miller Curras


Colleen Duffy


Rev. David Harvey


Rev. Amy Lawrence


Rev. Jeanne Radak


MISSIONAL PRACTICES WORKSHOPS

Opportunities for congregational leaders to learn God-centered habits that help a church listen for and respond to God’s call into missional action.

Missional Practices build God-centered habits that help any church spend more time and energy listening for God’s call into God’s mission already taking place nearby.

A team from our Presbytery has been trained by the staff of Church Innovations a consulting group specializing in helping congregations to thrive. These local facilitators are prepared to lead workshops that take place for a half day or over a series of evenings at local churches.

Each gathering focuses on one of six missional practices. These learning events give a local church concrete and faithful practices to DO, they learn simple actions that, when done repeatedly, change the culture of their congregation and make positive steps into connecting with the mission that God has for them.

Workshops can work for session or leadership retreats, Lent or Advent programs. Or you might want to help people become better disciples.

Contact the Presbytery Office Resourcing Center to schedule a workshop with one of our facilitators.

EMAIL US

OR call Robin at 973-361-0084

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Rev. Amy Lawrence


Rev. Carrie Morgan


Rev. Stefanie Muntzel



MISSIONAL PRACTICES BROCHURE

STEWARDSHIP

Rev. Jen VanZandt

The Rev. Jen Van Zandt is a Stewardship Resource/Expert especially as it relates to specialized campaigns and stewardship education to younger generations.

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