1. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Spiritual Growth through Mission Participation Dr. Ann A. Michel Associate Director Lewis Center for Church Leadership

2. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Spiritual Growth and Mission are Often Seen as Distinct and Unrelated Spiritual Growth Mission

3. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well The Dominant Model of Spiritual Formation 2 Maturity 3 Ministry 4 Mission 1 Membership

4. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Discipleship is a Learned Behavior “I simply do not believe that we can continue to try to think our way into a new way of acting, but rather, we need to act our way into a new way of thinking.” — Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways

5. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Mission as an Entry Point MissionsNewcomers Missions

6. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Spiritual Fruits of Mission Engagement 1.Understanding 2.Compassion 3.Awareness of God at work in the world 4.Humility 5.Self-awareness

7. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well 5.Generosity 6.Sacrificial living 7.A growing sense of God’s call on one’s life 8.Integration of faith and action Spiritual Fruits of Mission Engagement

8. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Framing Experiences Casting a vision Christian service as mission and ministry, not secular volunteerism Story telling Contextualization

9. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Preparation How do you relate effectively to people who are different from you? Ongoing mission education

10. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Getting Beyond our Comfort Zones “The practice of risk-taking mission and service pushes us out of our comfort zone and into places we would never go on our own. Those who practice risk-taking mission and service place themselves in situations that will change their minds. They voluntarily set aside their own convenience for a higher purpose. … They go where Jesus leads, even when it is uncomfortable, awkward, unexpected, and costly.” — Bishop Robert Schnase

11. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Deepening, Ongoing Engagement Challenge people toward relational forms of mission engagement. Structure activities that are stepping stones toward deepening, sustained engagement.

12. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Interpersonal Support Group support Leadership is a critical variable.

13. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Ongoing Reflection Action/reflection Make learning, debriefing, and spiritual reflection part of every mission activity. Ask provocative questions. Prayer

14. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Follow-up Is Christian service something we do or is it integral to who we are? Key factors: Accountability Support

15. Serve Your Neighbor: Doing Good Well Closing Prayer “Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks, compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are hands with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes. You are his body.” — St. Teresa of Avila