1. Step 4: Evaluating Presbytery of the Inland Northwest
Congregation Guiding Teams
April 25, 2015
Step 4: Evaluating

2. Today’s Agenda 10:15 Where Are We? 10:45 Break
9:30 Dwelling in the Word
10:15 Where Are We?
10:45 Break
11:00 Introduction to Evaluating Experiments
11:15 Listening, Discerning, Experimenting
12:00 Lunch
1:00 What Are We Learning?
2:00 Guiding Team Next Steps
3:00 Next Steps

3. Dwelling in the Word Where did your imagination stop?
Are there words, phrases, ideas that grasp you?
How do you think the Spirit of God might be nudging you?

4. Guide Posts
Cultivating new practices of local Christian life will give us fresh insights into God’s work in our neighborhood and local contexts, and will support the ministry and mission for our local church.
To remember that God is already out ahead of us, active in our neighborhoods
To always ask where I am being called to join with what God is up to in the neighborhood
To have a strong desire to know and pay attention to the stories of the people in our neighborhood 

5. Where Are We? Where is your team at?
What have you found challenging? Rewarding?

6. Action
Reflection

7. Overview of Reflection Framework:
What we did?
What worked well?
What would we change?
What are we learning?

8. Listening, Discerning, Experimenting
What we did
What worked
What would we change

9. What are we learning?
Listening
Discerning
Experimenting

10. Guiding Team Next Steps
Proposed next steps we need to take
Challenges we need to address to take next steps

11. Continue with Experiments Evaluate Experiments
Next Meeting