Berkeley Divinity School atYALE A Call to Spiritual and Congregational Growth Module 4: Follow up and next steps If you have questions regarding your Episcopal Spiritual Life Survey report, please contact the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago ‘s project leader Rebecca Roberts rroberts@EpiscopalChicago.org June 5, 2012

Agenda Welcome Spiritual Life Renewal Changing a Culture Follow-up questions Spiritual Life Renewal Changing a Culture Closing Remarks

Feedback: Questions Why take the survey if results are likely to be similar? How can this be applied to my church? especially if only 1 or 2 on staff. How address culture change in a systematic way?

A message from the Bishop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPToPDKJ_o&sns=em

Spiritual Life Renewal Key Takeaways Starts with You A self-examination Spiritual Growth Begin the Conversation Outcome: Vision and desired behaviors Church of the Holy Spirit Experience

Best Practice Principles Heart of the Leadership Team Starts with You! 2. Get People Moving 1. Heart of the Leadership Team 5. Pastor the Community 3. Embed the Bible 4. Create Ownership

Spiritual Life Renewal Purpose of Survey Create awareness and conversion Launch point for RenewalWorks workshops Baseline for bi-annual feedback

Church of the Holy Spirit Vision Process and Content Church of the Holy Spirit insights

Church of the Holy Spirit Vision & Desired Behaviors Process/content balance: open invitation participatory displayed Output: framework to guide an active document

Message from the Bishop Video #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAe7XiIjggw&sns=em

Themes CSO: Chief Spirituality Officer Change: Make Change a Positive Value Focus: Fewer Things Better

What does that really mean? The CSO Challenge What does that really mean?

Change as a Positive Value Rooted and Restless Why is 70/30 the right balance? How know the right 70%?

Episcopal Pilot Churches Heart of the Leadership Team Priorities: #2 & #3 2. Get People Moving 1. Heart of the Leadership Team 5. Pastor the Community 3. Embed the Bible 4. Create Ownership

Few, done better: Ministry Engagement Ministries are the fabric of our church Touching trusted communities Deeper discussion of spiritual growth

Ministry Engagement Church of the Holy Spirit insights

Recap Be the CSO: Chief Spirituality Officer Make Change a Positive Value Focus: Fewer Things Better

Pam Wesley Remarks

Message from the Dean Closing Remarks

Renewal: Next Steps Presentation materials made available E-mail the links RenewalWorks link http://www.episcopalchicago.org/at-work-in-the-church/episcopal-spiritual-life-renewal/ Episcopal survey sign-up with discounted fees ($300) Rebecca Roberts (rroberts@episcopalchicago.org)

Thanks!

Other stuff Slides: 1. Call to Spiritual and congregational growth:   2. The Episcopal Culture: Can it change 3. First message from bishop: 4. Basic principle: the vitality of a congregation is determined by the vitality of members of that congregation 5. Issues and insights: Freedom and Responsibilty Rooted and restless. Or is it rooted or restless? Can a rooted culture evolve 6. What is the vision:  7. A vision is a target that beckons. Bennis and Nanus, 1986 Where there is no vision the people perish. Proverbs 29.18 8. The visioning process at CHS Spiritual growth through: A Christ centered, loving community Worship Engagement with scripture Self-directed personal spiritual practices Service Stewardship 9. Second bishop message

Even more other stuff 10. Three points: CSO: How do we understand our roles as leaders? Change 30%: How do we know what to change? Do we have the nerve? Focus: How do we discern what we are called to do   11. How we are focusing: Ministry assessment 12. Where do we go from here? 13. Join us in this exploration. Join us in this pilot project. 14. Take the next step: begin with yourself, then get people praying and engaged with scripture 15. Invite congregations to take next steps (Handout) 16. Consider the value of this process for your own congregation 17. Contact information: jsidebotham@chslf.org 18. Center for Spiritual Vitality 19. There is more TBD more TBD