Uniquely You: A Congregation in Community

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Uniquely You A Congregation in Community
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Gathering Our Gifts
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Gathering Our Gifts

• Like individuals, all congregations called
  according to their gifts!
• No congregation is called to be all things to all
  people.  
• No congregation is called to do everything. 
• You are called to do just what you are gifted to
  do.  
• And thats enough!

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Reactions

• What are the highlights of this article?
• How did it make you feel?
• What ideas did it evoke?

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Individual Conceptualization

• Take _____ Minutes
• Answer/ Journal about Questions 1- 5

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Percept Demographic Packets
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Percept Demographic Packets

• Percept 10 Questions Quiz great for presenting
  this information to your congregation
• Percept First View Workshop possible tool for
  congregations
• Percept First View Report (1) based on a 2 mile
  radius around the church address
• Percept First View Report (2) a custom location
  (polygon) around the church.  (can choose others)
• Percept Sourcebook explains how the demographic
  information is obtained

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10 Question Quiz
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First View Workshop
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Percept First View Report

• Report 1 2 mile radius
• Report 2 custom polygonal location

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Percept Sourcebook

• explains how the demographic information is
  obtained
• Ideal for the Statistic Lovers out there!

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You In Your Community

• Non-threatening
• Groups of 2
• Interviewer Scribe
• Ask if they want a copy of the results
• Take their address
• A reason to come back

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Congregational Break-Out Session
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Percept Discussion

• Look over the Percept reports
• How different are the findings compared to your
  previous assumptions?
• Any surprises?

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Gathering Our Gifts (Revisited)

• Share/ Discuss your answers from Qs 1-5
• Look at and Discuss Question 6

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A Witnessing Community

• Stage One Foundations
• Stage Two Building on Foundations
• Stage Three Gaining Momentum!
• Stage Four Expanding Outreach Ministries
• (A Witnessing Community Independence, Missouri
  Herald Publishing House, 2003 )

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Application

• Brainstorm what this could mean for your
  congregation
• Write down goals
• Foundation
• Building on Foundation
• Gaining Momentum
• Expanding Outreach Ministries

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Feedback

• What did you learn?
• Highlights?
• What do you hope will come from this?
• How does your congregation's gifts, the
  community's needs and the call of section 163
  combine to give each congregation a unique call
  and mission?
• Is your congregation an inspiration, a
  contribution, a light to the community it
  inhabits?
• If your congregation was no longer there who
  would miss it?

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Resources for discovery

• Gifts inventories/surveys
• Congregational Leaders Handbook
• Books
• Discover and Share Your Gifts  A Process for
  Strengthening Personal Ministry and
  Congregational Life by Developing More Active
  Discipleship
• Hospitality by Tammy Lindle (Witnessing Tool
  Kit)
• Other Ideas
• Discernment Process Individual and
  Congregational 
• Life Hurts, God Heals
• ESL