Bishop Peggy A. JohnsonBishop Peggy A. JohnsonFall 2014Fall 2014

Levers help us get things doneLevers help us get things doneLevers help us move things we otherwise Levers help us move things we otherwise couldn’t budgecouldn’t budge

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Levers multiply resultsLevers multiply resultsCritical operational focal Critical operational focal points for changepoints for change

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Starting New ChurchesStarting New Churches

Clergy Peer LearningClergy Peer Learning

Congregational InterventionCongregational Intervention

Cultivating Clergy ExcellenceCultivating Clergy Excellence

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Reconfiguring Conference Reconfiguring Conference SessionsSessions

Aligning Budgets & ResourcesAligning Budgets & Resources

Creating Technically Elegant Creating Technically Elegant Governance SystemsGovernance Systems

I am no longer my own, but thine.I am no longer my own, but thine.Put me to what thou wilt, rank me Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt,with whom thou wilt,Put me to doing, put me to suffering.Put me to doing, put me to suffering.Let me be employed by thee, or laid aside for thee, Let me be employed by thee, or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low by thee.exalted for thee or brought low by thee.Let me be full, let me be empty. Let me be full, let me be empty. Let me have all things, let me have nothing. Let me have all things, let me have nothing. I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.and disposal.

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A Strategy for Starting New A Strategy for Starting New ChurchesChurches

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What role does your congregation play in What role does your congregation play in starting new churches? starting new churches?

What role do YOU play?What role do YOU play?

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A Strategy for A Strategy for Clergy Peer LearningClergy Peer Learning

What’s the role of laity in cultivating clergy What’s the role of laity in cultivating clergy peer learning?peer learning?

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What peer learning is happening in PDC that is What peer learning is happening in PDC that is working well?working well?

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A Strategy forA Strategy forCongregational InterventionCongregational Intervention

What role or responsibility do you What role or responsibility do you think the conference holds for think the conference holds for addressing decline in addressing decline in congregations?congregations?

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What intervention models have What intervention models have worked worked well to reinvigorate worked worked well to reinvigorate congregations? congregations?

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A Strategy forA Strategy forCultivating Clergy ExcellenceCultivating Clergy Excellence

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What’s the role of laity in assuring excellence What’s the role of laity in assuring excellence in clergy leadership?in clergy leadership?

What are you doing to invite gifted young What are you doing to invite gifted young people into the ministry?people into the ministry?

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A Strategy forA Strategy forAligning Budgets & ResourcesAligning Budgets & Resources

What values and themes drive your What values and themes drive your conference’s efforts to align budgets toward conference’s efforts to align budgets toward the mission?the mission?

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What’s the hardest financial decision your What’s the hardest financial decision your conference had made in recent years? conference had made in recent years?

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A Strategy forA Strategy forCreating Technically Elegant Creating Technically Elegant

Governance SystemsGovernance Systems

How user-friendly and intuitively How user-friendly and intuitively understandable is your governance system?understandable is your governance system?

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How can we improve the structure of the How can we improve the structure of the conference?conference?

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A Strategy forA Strategy forReconfiguring Conference Reconfiguring Conference

SessionsSessions

What frustrates you most about conference What frustrates you most about conference sessions and why?sessions and why?

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What would you say is the most important What would you say is the most important purpose of gathering for conference?purpose of gathering for conference?

ARE WE ARE WE READY TO READY TO

IMPLEMENT IMPLEMENT NEW NEW

STRATEGIES STRATEGIES TO INSURE TO INSURE

OUR OUR FUTURE ?FUTURE ?