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Transition Workshop Wisconsin Annual Conference. Rev. Dr. Mark A. Fowler Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary May 3, 2014. Devotions. Saying Goodbye. It’s about Leadership: adaptive & technical It’s about the connection It’s about people Who will you see and how? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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REV. DR. MARK A. FOWLERGARRETT-EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARYMAY 2 , 2015
Transition WorkshopWisconsin Annual Conference
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Devotions
Missional sending in a settled church
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SESSION ONE
Say Goodbye
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Saying Goodbye
It’s about Leadership: adaptive & technicalIt’s about the connectionIt’s about peopleWho will you see and how?It’s about the children It’s about caring for family and renewingIt’s about Sabbath and wildernessSabbath is crucial for you and your family
at this timeWho are you without the church identity?
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Some ‘rules’ of Goodbye
Goodbye is complete and imperative (yet impossible)
So, new relationships in old settings are to be carefully (and collegially)considered
Do not be coy or duplicitousYOU must be clear about the boundariesCrucial to leave the church and the
connection empoweredThe larger community needs to know the
boundaries
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Plan for Transition
SESSION TWO
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Administration and Goodbye
Tie things up, don’t do anything newNo need to ‘burnish your image’
Invite your successor to be part of their future and find ways of blessing
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A Key Help for the Future
Attempt to get a true assessment of the reality of the congregation
Dare to ask who the congregation is without the present pastor. It is easier for the present pastor to do this than the next pastor to deal with unacknowledged grief and begin the assessment process
Be “in the play” and “in the balcony”
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Empower Lay Leadership
Specific to the transitionSpecific to help them name important aspects
of their church and its hopes in their own language
This will help you to sense what you did well and what may have been temporary to you. This is not unimportant, but helpful
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SESSION THREE
Letting Go & Experiencing Wilderness
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Experience Wilderness
Genesis 12:1-9
“Go from your country and your kindred…to the land I will show you…
“I will bless you …so that you will be a blessing
“…(they) journeyed on by stages toward the Nebev”
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Plan for the Transition
A transition has two points for all involved, the beginning and the end
Focus on the family networks and care for them
As a single person, look to important networks and foster/find them
Plan early for rituals of goodbyeLet folk help in sending you forth
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This is a collegial transition
United Methodists are connectionalInvolve the new pastor in meeting the staff,
seeking your counsel and doing ‘behind the scenes’ work
Do not hesitate to mention the successor’s name and gifts
Look for symbols and opportunities to ‘pass the torch’ The UM Book of Worship is helpful
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SESSION FOUR
New Beginnings &Cross Cultural Sensitivity
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New Beginnings
How do we welcome a new pastor?
How do I welcome a new congregation?
How do we deal with the business end of things early?
Adaptive before technical in administration and leadership
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This place is different
Learn firstSize, purpose & demographics will be
differentFamily>Pastor>Program>CorporateHouse of Worship>Leader>Community>Spiritual typesLife stages of the congregation Roxburgh &
Romanuck
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Key Assessment points
MissionVisionCompelling Narratives
Core ValuesStrategic plansOvert and non-articulated orthodoxies
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Honor the Past
You are not the first (unless you are)Establish hospitality for what went before
and how to live with it with integrityAllow grief and assess pastoral careBe clear that you will need to b everywhere
all the time and care for yourself and your family in more concentrated ways?!?!?
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New Beginnings
Prepare the passion of your soul for this new place. Hope before limitation. Commitments before boundaries.
Honor the PastListenMake an effort for investment in the first 90
daysPlan to use the first months dedicated to the
church and inventory the other commitments you have. What must you keep? What can wait?
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Plan
Check the water before diving inPlan which end to dive in firstAgain, be people oriented. Manage with
dexterity and to keep things going. Major excavation takes assessment and building a team to move into the future.
Show Up. Show Up. Show Up.Show up prepared and ask questionsPreach and lead with evidence that you
have heard them and test your translations
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Church Systems
Power and authority are thrown into questionChaos is creative and healthyCall new orderLoyalty and betrayal issues need to be calledComfort and uncertainty
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More Systems issues
You de-stabilize the systemEnemies emerge as leadersTrust emerges in the new ordering of things
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Cross-Cultural Appointment
More prominent and possible in appointive structure
Every appointment is cross-culturalHow much does everyone know that everyone
knows?History to be learned and relatedValues heldCommunication patterns
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Begin as a minimalist
What do you share? Check it out…How does hospitality work?Can you find a cultural interpreter trusted by
all involved?Listen and watchAdjust expectations frequently
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Begin in Communion
Find the most important meal and share it Honor the traditions and the leadership
structureDo not assume what your role isYou will make mistakes. Are you able to
learn?Learn the language. They are all “foreign” to
you.
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Keys to communion
GatheringCelebratingBlessingPatterns of relationshipBreak breadFeastWhen is the “best” brought out
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Preparing for a Cross-Cultural Appointment
The Woman at the WellIn this episode Jesus approached a disenfranchised person at that persons gathering place -
Come to themHonor their story,
while sharing Christ’s story
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Preparing for a Cross-Cultural Appointment
The Walk to EmmausIn this episode Jesus shared the journey, listened to their story, shared Christ’s story, and broke bread with them-
Come to themHear their story,
while sharing Christ’s story
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Immigrant issues
Expectations of a “promised land”? Test this.DisappointmentAre you the representative of Caesar?
Perhaps see yourself as the converted centurion
What are the changes in the biblical story needed for your own narrative?