Agenda for Stillspeaking 102

 

Booster Party Agenda - Stillspeaking 102

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12:15  Working Lunch

Testimonies of the People – Promises Made . . . Promises Kept
  1. Working Luncheon – Please take a plate
  2. Prayer: Ask Gods blessing on our lives and our work
  3. Leader of the Initial Training participants invites. . .
    1. New Stillspeaking participants to share name and church
    2. Previously trained participants to give testimony about TSI
      • Pre-select 
      • Leave room for spontaneous responses
1:15  Assessing Progress (30 minutes)
  1. Show the Bouncer ad
  2. Show God is still speaking, 102 DVD (14 minutes) What happened? Revisit core Bible story
1:45   Becoming a Welcoming Church (30 minutes, Ron in a Box, Chapter 6)
You won’t magically turn your church into a welcoming church overnight. However, with organization and planning you can make it feel that way to visitors and seekers. What you are planting today will eventually transform your congregation into a welcoming place . . . expect it to take time.Take about 30 minutes to explore these questions
  • Does your church actively invite others into its worship and ministry?
  • Do visitors feel welcome in your church?
  • Learning from the success of Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, are there things you can do better to be a visible witness and active presence of God’s radical and all-inclusive welcome?
2:15  Exchange Ideas (30 minutes)
  1. Break into groups to share (20 minutes)
    1. What you are doing about identity at your church, and hear from others  
    2. Ways your church can help TV ads run again - It’s as Easy as  1-2-3  
    3. Ideas about how to make a big splash for All Saints Celebrations
  2. Brain Storming: Each group shares the best of the best stories / ideas with the entire group -- in each of the three categories (10 minutes)

Additional ideas

The secret shopper.  Ask someone not known to your people visit your church and rate the church on friendliness and cleanliness, parking, etc.

The secret greeters.  Create a cadre of people who have this job description: Find someone you don’t know and introduce yourself. Then introduce them to someone else.  If they are new to the church, introduce them to the pastor too.

2:45  Share Communion, Pass the Peace /Laying on of Hands, and Send Forth with Vigor

3:15  Fun and Shameless Commerce
         Find creative ways to keep people around for half an hour. Demonstrate the Graphics Toolkit 3.0.
         Party!

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