Diocese of Arizona

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Diocese of Arizona
What time is it?
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Does anybody know what time it is?
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Its what?
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Its Tool Time!
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• Time to check the blue prints
• Time to inspect the foundations
• Time to make sure we have the tools
• Time to build!

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What does the Bible say?
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For we are God's servants, working together you
are God's field, God's building.
I Corinthians 3.9
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Our Blueprint

• To create a Mission-Driven Diocese
• Embrace a BHAG of 10 new congregations in 10
  years.
• Direct resources of the Diocese towards parish
  growth
• Move from maintenance to mission
• Reclaim the Great Commission

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GO! not SIT
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all that I have commanded you and lo, I
am with you always, to the close of the age."
Matthew 2819-20

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Foundations

• In the last two years, we have begun
• to lay the foundations for the work ahead

Every one then who hears these words of mine and
does them will be like a wise man who built his
house upon the rock and the rain fell, and the
floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon
that house, but it did not fall, because it had
been founded on the rock.
Matthew 724-25
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Foundation Organization

• New structure of Program
  Mission Groups in place
• 11 out of 13 Groups running
  and funded
• 2 new Mission
• Groups added (Elderly,
• Addiction
• Recovery)
• Mission
• Groups meeting

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Foundation Communications

• New Website launched
• New Newspaper format
• New Intranet
• in place

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Foundation Clergy support

• Clergy days
• Annual retreat (97 attendance)
• COM reorganized and on-line
• Sizeable group of
• seminarians (5)
• priest postulants (7)
• transitional deacons(2)
• deacon candidates (7)
  
• and new deacons (7)
• Funds available
• for sabbatical
• Three chaplains
• available to clergy
• and families

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Foundation Congregational Support

• Magnetic Church Conference
• Misconduct prevention training
• Anti-racism training in place
• Academy for
• Episcopal
• Philanthropy
• On-site visits
• for Stewardship,
• Congregational
• Development, and
• Childrens Ministry

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Foundations Church Plants

• NORTH PEORIA
• Prince of Peace Mission
• The Rev. John Maher
• DESERT RIDGE
• Church of the Nativity Mission
• The Rev. Susan Snook
• PHOENIX
• St Pauls Sudanese Mission
• The Rev. Samuel Reec
• TUCSON
• San Andres Mission
• The Rev. Jorge Sotelo

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Church of the NativityDesert HillsOctober 2006
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The foundations are in place, now its time
to pick up the tools

• For which of you,
• desiring to build a tower,
• does not first sit down
• and count the cost,
• whether he has enough
• to complete it?
• Luke 1428

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God has given us everything we need, but
there is always a need to find the right tool to
help us do the job

• Organic Church Growth
• By Christian Schwartz

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The Diocese can help !
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Tools
EVANGELISM

• Workshops Coming Up
• January 27, 2007
• Recognizing Growing Your Strengths with Rob
  Voyle
• Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix
• September 14-15, 2007
• Episcopal Evangelism
• with Britt Olsen

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Tools
MINISTRY FAIR

• March 3, 2007
• Something for everyone
• Wardens Workshops
• Lector, LEM, LEV training
• 45 sessions in all!
• Grand Canyon University
• Worship! Learn! Share!

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Tools
ADVERTISING

• New web availability
• ArizonaLife wrap-around
• EpiscopalLife 6x per year
• Weekly E-pistle Newsletter

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Tools
Lay Ministry Empowerment

• Chalicists and LEVs chosen and trained locally
• Canons provide for licensed preachers, pastoral
  care givers, evangelists,
• worship leaders, catechists
• Training at Ministry Fair
• Assistance available

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Tools
The Episcopal Church Foundation

• Provides on-site training and consultation
• For capital giving and planned giving for
  individual churches
• See them in the exhibit hall

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Tools
The Alleluia Fund

• Purpose an independent fund for new church
  plants and congregational growth initiatives
• Four sources of funding sale of land, large
  individual gifts, annual appeal, CAP program
• New steering committee created
• designated representative in every congregation
• New target areas identified

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REMEMBER New Growth Initiative Grants For
Existing Congregations

• 50,000 in budget
• Only 6,000 distributed in 2006
• Kingmanlocal advertising
• St Raphaels Bensonmarketing new community
  programs
• St Johns Globeafter school childrens program.
• Apply to Diocesan Council

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Tools ARE only as good as the workers
I urge you to put yourselves at the service of
such people, and of everyone who works and toils
with them. 1 Corinthians 1616
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Ive pledged to YOU the efforts of YOUR
Diocesan staff to provide a blue print, lay the
foundations, help to provide the tools YOU
need. Together WE can build a church for the
future!
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YOU ARE FROM HERE
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AND Here
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and HERE !
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TOGETHER WE ARE...
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The Diocese of ArizonaFounded on Faith.
Together in Mission.