Conference Workshops

Workshops will vary in length with printed handouts (30,60, 90, and 120 minutes):

1. Steps to prevent and resolve conflicts, introduction of Eric Law’s “RESPECT” vestry and parish relationships

2. Using the Eight Quality Characteristics of a Healthy Church for assessment and goal setting as organized in Natural Church Development

3. Building a Welcoming System with member involvement: Hospitality, Invitation, and Incorporation (HII) Does your congregation want more members? How to involve the members in recruiting new members?

4. A simple effective way to discover the “passion and gifts” with in your congregation using John McKnight’s and Jody Kretzmann’s The Power of Asset Mapping, How Your Congregation Can Act on Its Gifts.

5. Peer Groups and Continuing Education: Two Essential for Clergy Leaders based on the success of Diocese of Texas and the Lilly Endowment’s Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Project.

6. Best Practices and Process to gain congregational clear purpose, mission, and core values.

7. Best Practices to enhance spiritual vitality and personal growth.

8. Living Things Change: Ways to enable the congregation to be willing to change to meet new challenges.

9. Welcoming attitudes, behaviors and structures that increase the number of children and youth

10. Embracing the many types of Newer Technology: Samples of websites, e-mailing, blogs, facebook, podcasts, twitter, etc

11. Adult Formation and Spiritual practices that work in the small church.

12. Cross Training and Rotation Volunteer leaders “when there are fewer fish in the pool”

13. Strategic Vision (on diocesan or parish perspective ) for Reaching Latinos/Hispanic in multicultural communities : Setting Goals and Tracking Effectiveness

14. Using the Gifts and Talents of Others: Three Models for Gifts Discovery and Development

15. Diocesan Staff or Chairs of Diocesan Commissions: Using the Gallup Redevelopment Assessment and Behavioral Covenants Necessary for Intentional Redevelopment

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