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Economic Stress

9. Economic Stress Declining Attendance
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance

10. Economic Stress Declining Attendance Overwhelming growth
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth

11. High cost of full- time clergy
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of full- time clergy

12. Adjusting to less than full-time clergy leadership
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of F/T clergy
Adjusting to less than full-time clergy leadership

13. Reaching children/ youth/ families
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of F/T clergy
Adjusting to less than F/T clergy leadership
Reaching children/ youth/ families

14. Cultural & Theological change
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of F/T clergy
Adjusting to less than F/T clergy leadership
Reaching children/ youth/ families
Cultural & Theological change

15. Crisis in Anglican Identity
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of F/T clergy
Adjusting to less than F/T clergy leadership
Reaching children/ youth/ families
Cultural & Theological change
Crisis in Anglican Identity

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Economic Stress
Declining Attendance
Overwhelming growth
High cost of F/T clergy
Adjusting to less than F/T clergy leadership
Reaching children/ youth/ families
Cultural & Theological change
Crisis in Anglican Identity

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19. Decline of the Roman Empire (5th C.) Good Friday and the Primitive
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
The Rennaisance (16th C.)
The Great Schism (11th C.)
Decline of the Roman Empire
(5th C.)
Good Friday and the Primitive
Church (1st C.)

20. The Rennaisance (16th C.) The Bridge:
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The Rennaisance (16th C.)
The Bridge:
The Reformers
The New Future – The Protestant Reformation

21. The division/separation of 2 churches
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The Rennaisance (16th C.)
The Great Schism (11th C.)
The Bridge:
The division/separation of 2 churches

22. Decline of the Roman Empire (5th C.)
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
The Rennaisance (16th C.)
The Great Schism (11th C.)
Decline of the Roman Empire (5th C.)
The Bridge:
Gregory the Great - Restoration of moral, social & political order

23. The Bridge: The Upper Room
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The Great Reformation (16th C.)
The Great Schism (11th C.)
Decline of the Roman Empire (5th C.)
Good Friday and the Primitive Church (1st C.)
The Bridge:
The Upper Room

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PAST BRIDGE PERIODS
Predictions of the Church’s death
GOD HAS PROVIDED A BRIDGE
Revelations of the Church
Rediscovery of mission
Include more of the excluded

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Complacency and Commitment to Status Quo
Vision becomes myopic
Theologically, spiritually, institutionally stagnant
Mission becomes defending & preserving what it has done for years

26. GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED,
GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND
Rom. 5:20

27. GOD’S GRACE IS STILL UNPREDICATBLY IN THE WORLD
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
GOD’S GRACE IS STILL UNPREDICATBLY IN THE WORLD
BECKONING US FORWARD

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Bridges God has Provided Central Pennsylvania

33. Bridges God has Provided in Central Pennsylvania
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Bridges God has Provided in Central Pennsylvania
Diocesan Office Staff

34. Bridges God has Provided in Central Pennsylvania
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Bridges God has Provided in Central Pennsylvania
Volunteer Commissions and Committees

35. Not Just a Time of Survival
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Not Just a Time of Survival

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Looking with
hope for the
future to
which God
may be
calling us
Remembering
how far God
has brought us

37. Challenge: FULL TIME CLERGY Bridge: Supply, Retired, Part-time Clergy
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Challenge: FULL TIME CLERGY
Bridge:
Supply, Retired, Part-time Clergy

38. Bi-vocational or Non-Stipendiary Ministry
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Challenge: FULL TIME CLERGY
Destination: clergy who can change their concept of ministry
Bi-vocational or Non-Stipendiary Ministry

39. Challenge: FULL TIME CLERGY Destination: their concept of church
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Challenge: FULL TIME CLERGY
Destination:
Congregations who change
their concept of church

40. “The Work of the Priest” + “The Work of the People”
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
“The Work of the Priest” +
“The Work of the People”

41. Professional Ministers ~ assume that “they must do it”
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
Professional Ministers
~ assume that “they must do it”

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VOCATIONAL DIACONATE
~ You don’t have to be a priest to lead
~ It’s about the ministry to the world
~ It’s not about the money
~ It’s about the mission
~ I don’t have to move to be educated
~ Committed to life-long learning & spiritual development
~ Together we might serve our community in the world
~ I can’t do my job service if you don’t do yours

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CHURCHES DON’T GROW
BECAUSE OF
MEMBERSHIP DRIVES

44. We grow when we understand that spiritual depth of growth
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
We grow when we understand
that spiritual depth of growth
is more important than numbers.

45. Congregational Development Commission
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Congregational Development Commission
Committed to new ways for congregations to discern why God has called them to be a witness to their community
Assist in identifying and equipping lay teams to do ministry and carry out mission

46. Congregational Development Commission
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Congregational Development Commission
Small teams will visit congregations to:
Learn about their ministry & mission
Seek better ways to plan, support & equip
Learn of local Episcopal, ecumenical & social partners
Share with other congregations & diocesan staff

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MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
The School of Christian Studies
“Equipping the Lay Saints” for
Ministry Leadership
Greater participation and support of lay ministries

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MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
The School of Christian Studies
Preparation model for :
Eucharistic Ministers
Eucharistic Visitors
Lectors

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MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
The School of Christian Studies
Other Licensed Lay Ministers:
Catechists Lay Preachers Church School/Christian Ed. Directors Evangelism & Newcomer Directors Children & Youth Leaders Parish Administrators Parish Pastoral Care Visitors & Directors

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“The Gifts [God gave the Church] were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.
Ephesians 4: 11-12

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Spiritually thriving Churches
have strong lay ministries
which are not administrative but
theological, pastoral and mission oriented

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MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Diocesan Task Force to Recommend
New Ways of
Discerning, Educating and Forming
Bi-Vocational or Non-Stipendiary Priests

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MY VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Discern & Seek Candidates who have
A Uniquely Different
CALL AND COMMITMENT
~ To serve small congregations
~ To plan and grow new congregations
~ To prepare for ministry
~ To serve in a part-time or non-stipendiary ministry
~ To find their primary financial support outside congregational life

54. RECOGNIZE THAT THEY HAVE A BURDEN & GIFT FOR MINISTRY
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania With the Love of God on Our Lips and in Our Lives
PERSONS WHO
SEE A NEED
RECOGNIZE THAT THEY HAVE A BURDEN & GIFT FOR MINISTRY
FEEL THE CALL OF GOD
ARE WILLING TO SUBMIT TO THE RIGOR OF SPIRITUAL AND ACADEMIC PREPARATION

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56. Archbishop Oscar Romero
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A Future Not Our Own
Archbishop Oscar Romero
THE BISHOP:
It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.
THE CONVENTION:
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision.

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THE BISHOP:
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
THE CONVENTION:
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.

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THE BISHOP:
No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. THE CONVENTION:
No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

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THE BISHOP:
This is what we are about: We plant seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. THE CONVENTION:
We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.

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THE BISHOP: We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. THE CONVENTION:
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.

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THE BISHOP:
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. THE CONVENTION:
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

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