Those were the instructions at the start of the Congregational Vitality and Transformation Team meeting I attended Wednesday.
Complete with a stack of large Post-It Notes and a collection fine point markers the seven of us went to work brainstorming, dreaming, and discerning.
Passion ... Engagement ... Resurrection ... Kingdom of God ... Cocoon ... Joyful ... Hard... Challenge ... Calling ... Christ-centered ... Direction ... Painful ... Process ... Spirit ... Hope ... Courage ... Risk ... Alive … Discipleship ... Purpose ... Fun … Emerge …
You may or may not have heard me talk about the Congregational Vitality and Transformation Team (CVT, for short) before. It is a pilot project in the Arizona Region right now that I am grateful to be a part of. The CVT includes six ministers from Arizona who are serving different churches from around the state who feel called to this kind of revitalizing ministry. Our Regional Minister Denny Williams invited each one of us to the table, and he is the seventh member of the CVT. We are working together to figure out exactly what this work of transformation and revitalization means...for us, for the congregations we serve, and for the Arizona Region.
So, church, how about you? What comes to mind when you hear the word transformation? What about vitality? Or revitalization?
As we start putting our words out there along with our hopes, our prayers, and our dreams for what is to come then maybe, just maybe we'll begin to share in the dream that God has for our congregation. And that is when we'll know that these words we are tossing around aren’t just describing transformation they are describing us.
Keep a look out for more snippets and updates from the good work that is going on with the Congregational Vitality and Transformation Team!
Yours in the Journey, Rev. Brian
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