Tuesday, August 30, 2015

 In loving support, hold each other accountable for spiritual growth, personal piety, and leadership development.  Give yourself to God in worship, prayer and conversation.  Learn together about community, following, and leadership.  Become a leadership team that tackles a problem together so as to better create a disciple-making faith community.

 Loving God & Neighbor through spiritual formation & worship  Formation - the process of being conformed to the image of Christ, a servant of others for the sake of God’s mission. Individuals are asked to share their journey and relationship with God.

 Learning through  Personal and organizational examination  Ministry Action Planning  Reading and study of materials together

 Leading by  Participation in or development of a team  Participation and living into the District Ministry Action Plan  Developing smaller Ministry Action Plans (Child MAPS)

 Joys and Concerns  Glory Sightings

Words & Music: Chris Rice., 1998 CD: Past the Edges

Joe Geary – Director of Connectional Ministries

 Clusters: River Counties, McCracken, Marshall, Graves  Individual: Calloway, Fulton  Focus  Priorities

 Clusters/Geographically based in place and ministry context  Centered on a Loving – Learning – Leading Model  Develop, in tandem with lay leadership, a Ministry Action Plan (MAP) for the cluster that answers these questions: Who are we? Where are we? What is God calling us to do? How do we get there?  Desired Outcome: to support local churches in making disciples of Jesus Christ

 Covenantal Relationship between all Clergy  Responsibility of Elders, leaders among equals  Gossip and Undermining - Unacceptable

 Marshall – Kim Morrison, Dianna Colson  Graves – Joe Hansen, Kathy Belcher  McCracken – Ben Boone, John Sparks, Sue Engle  River Counties– Stan Waldon, Ruth Ann Roberts, Jamie Lee  Calloway – In formation

Team Context Focus Strategy Transformation Creating Transformative Environments Personal, Internal, External, Assessment Values, Mission, Vision Growing Systems & Relational Connections Implementing & Sustaining Systems

Connected Success is based on unity and momentum Clear mission Spiritual leadership growing Teamwork is strong with clear roles and accountability Ministry Action Plan in place Flowing system established Adaptive problem solving abilities Independent Success is dependent on the competence and heroics of individuals Little innovation around the flow and process of making disciples Fruitfulness in pockets, processes are usually isolated, disconnected, ad-hoc and chaotic Characterized by a tendency to over commit, and not able to repeat past successes Lacking unity and teamwork, little focus Solo, command and control leadership with little accountability Generative Success is based on continually improving systems Continual monitoring and improvement of the disciple making stream Increasing efficiencies, forward momentum, multiplication, and innovation Spiritual Leaders producing more Spiritual Leaders