LeaderWise’s online boundaries training workshop is lively and interactive, full of reflection and conversation. Attendees have given us feedback that our boundaries training was a great experience, AND caused them to re-evaluate some of their own practices.
The ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the primary decision-making body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is a process of communal spiritual discernment. When the ELCA Churchwide Assembly convenes, its voting members meet with confidence in God’s grace around word and water, wine and bread, to carry on their work on behalf of the entire church.
A 2-year program that focuses on (1) creating faithful, healthy & effective communities of faith, regardless of size, condition, or location (2) understanding & developing the congregation’s internal organizational life and leadership (3) the congregation’s relationship with the people and world outside of itself: potential visitors, the neighborhood, the broader world/culture (4) lay and clergy teams
Join us April 1-2, 2022 for a Peer Ministry Leadership Training with Dr. Lyle Griner at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp! Peer ministry is about the practical life skill that empowers us to become Good Samaritan leaders who care for every neighbor, every day, everywhere in every relationship. Peer Ministry is about loving. Because God first loved us!
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Drinking from a fire hose?
For a lot of us, the last two years have been one change after another. Before we’ve even gotten comfortable with one new way of life—from preaching to a computer screen to online worship—we’ve found ourselves having to figure out something else.
While there’s been an abundance of new learning taking place, very little (if any) time has been available for reflecting—or even being still. It’s been a hectic season, and if you feel like you’ve been drinking from a fire hose, you’re not the only one.
To God’s beloved people in the NWIM Synod,
In the synod office, we have been asked by many of you to provide guidance around when to suspend in-person worship due to increased cases of SARS-COVID19 cases in a community. While there are some such documents available from other denominational bodies (United Methodist Church, for example) after discussion as a staff we realized that our ability to draft such a document is limited—simply because of the polity of the ELCA. I cannot direct congregations to not meet in person. That is a decision that falls to the rostered leader(s) and council of a congregation. Adding to the complexity: the ministry contexts of our synod are so varied that what might indicate a need to suspend in-person worship in one congregation might not in another.