| A Monthly Newsletter
from CenteredLife.org - September 2005 |
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Living Out Our Callings At . . .
Third in a four-part sermon series introducing Centered Life. |
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". . .we have limited our understanding of serving God to
things that involve the words: committee, mission, evangelism or
church. And these are good and important things. But our service to
God is not limited to the things that fall neatly into those
categories. Everything, every moment of our lives can be service to
God. How?"
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Idea: Backpack Blessing
Highlight the callings of students,
teachers, parents, etc. this Rally Day |
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 "Lord, these backpacks remind us that a
new school year is about to begin. We pray your blessing upon their
owners and upon all students, young and old, as they begin this new
school year . . ."
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Fall Events
Connecting Sunday to Monday:
get started, get connected, get equipped |
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Leadership Training
Conferences
Get started with the
Centered Life Process. Imagine
your congregation as a people awakened, called, set free, and nurtured
for service in God's world.
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Annual Vision
Team Conference
Get connected with other vision team members, leaders like you,
working to connect Sunday to Monday in congregations across the
country. Expect a lively mix of presentations, workshops,
discussions, and best practice exchanges.
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Lifelong Learning &
Continuing Education
Get equipped to teach on
Christian
vocation, help others discover their
dependable strengths, lead
intergenerational dialogues, empower
ministry in the workplace, and move
your congregation from
maintenance to mission.
See Upcoming Events sidebar for additional dates.
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Review: Roles & Structures Resource
Organizationally, how can
congregations better nurture vocational living? |
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 Congregational
change, and particularly elective congregational change, is often too
intimidating to contemplate, let alone enact.
Help is on the way. In Congregation &
Community, sociologist Nancy Ammerman lets us look in on the lives
of 23 congregations denying, considering, and realizing change.
While not a clean "how to", the case studies illuminate the
possibilities and perils of congregational change.
Rick Bliese, now president at Luther
Seminary, helpfully reviewed the work for The Christian Century
in 1988.
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