Synod of the Sun will pay room & board (double occupancy) for 4 from each presbytery to attend.

 

This event is open particularly to Committee Leadership of Presbyteries - Councils; Futuring & Transition Task Forces; Search Committees and Committee Moderators. 

 

The program will feature NEXT Church "Cultivated Ministry" tool but tweaked to Presbyteries working with smaller churches and for smaller church themselves.

 

We will work together to understand the ministries of our tiny churches and how we can take care of them. 

• In this day of shrinking budgets and shrinking membership what defines your church? 

• Downsizing does not mean dying!

• How do you assess viability?

• How do you measure a congregation’s heart?

 

Because our discussions will be guided by NEXT Church’s “Cultivated Ministry” tool, participants should visit the Cultivated Ministry site and check out their resources. Visit the site here: https://nextchurch.net/resources/cultivated-ministry/

 

“There used to be a widely held and simple answer to this question: success is measured by growth in membership, attendance, and financial support. Increasingly, however, these metrics seem out of touch with the realities of ministry in contemporary post-Christendom North America.”

 

“Sometimes our work needs to be reduced in order to expand. Sometimes aspects of it need to come to an end.”

 

“The key to making this paradigm shift is understanding that learning is the primary goal of assessment.”