About the Member Mission Leadership Institute
October 6-11, 2008 at The Spiritual Life Center, Greenwich, NY
(45 minutes from the Albany Airport)
About member mission: we assume that the primary agents of God’s mission in today’s world are the laity in their daily places – their homes, their work, their local community, the wider world, their leisure, their spiritual health, and their church’s life and its outreach. We provide tested resources to help members to discern their missions in each of those places; and to help the clergy and lay leaders of their church to make supporting the members in their daily living as Christians its primary purpose – or, at least, one of its primary purposes.
For: the ordained leaders of congregations and one co-leader (where possible)
Purpose: participants will leave with the skills to begin to implement member mission in their congregations.
The institute offers:
·
practice in following the basic steps to
implement member mission for individuals, pairs, or
small groups; and into the life of the congregation as a
whole
·
practice in the basic interpersonal, group
process, system, and feedback skills needed to implement
member mission
·
ongoing consultation for three years
Participants commit themselves
to (see Registration form):
·
advance reading of the basic text and
workbook for member mission and written preparation –
bring all with you to the Institute (all to be sent to you
after 8/19/08)
·
implement two-three activities in your
congregation each year for three years
·
participate in coaching during this three
year period
More about the Institute:
·
space is limited - apply by 9/15/08
·
most of the learning will occur in small
groups
·
lodging in single rooms
·
arrive in time for dinner at 6:00 PM on 10/6;
leave after breakfast on 10/11
Cost: $100 plus half your travel costs (based on economy/coach class air fare available through www.priceline.com plus parking, meals, and transport to the Center); the other half of travel costs and the balance of lodging and meals are provided by Member Mission Network, Inc. Scholarships are available.
.