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This invitation is for ALL Small Congregations and Rural Congregations in Southwestern TX Synod
Theme: Equipping the Saints: Flipping the Script
Host Congregation: United Dr. Martin Luther Lutheran Church, Shiner, TX
Date: Saturday, February 1
Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Guest Presenters: Rev. Dr. Craig Nessan and Rev. Jon Anderson
Event Type – In Person/Hybrid
Cost – FREE
Schedule:
8:30 am Registration
9:00 am Gathered Worship
10:00 am Rev. Dr. Craig Nessan with breakout conversations “Flipping the Script” Focusing
on the Ecclesiology of the Baptized
11:30 am Rev. Jon Anderson “The Four Pivots” Focusing on the lay-led shifts
Noon Boxed Lunches
1:00 – 3:00 pm “Faithful Innovation in Small Town and Rural Settings” Focusing on Listening, Acting,
& Sharing
3:00 pm Wrap-Up/What’s Next/Takeaways
3:15 pm Sending Worship
3:30 pm Go in peace to Serve the Living Lord!
Our living Triune God keeps pulling God’s people towards God’s preferred and promised future through many challenges and into the opportunities of our time.
This year’s Equipping the Saints event will have two keynote speakers, Rev. Dr. Craig Nessen from Wartburg Seminary and Pastor Jon Anderson from Luther Seminary, who will engage the way we are being invited, encouraged, and sometimes driven by God’s Spirit to shift our ways of doing Church towards a more lay-led and clergy supported approach to mission and ministry in the coming years. This shift will take reimagining, patient listening, many experiments, and open sharing about what we learn to serve better our communities of faith and the communities where God has placed us.
The Rev. Dr. Nessen will speak about the surprising ecclesiology that grows from our Lutheran movement and guides us toward a fresh orientation to our ministry and mission. God calls and sends the whole body of Christ to live out our many callings to serve God’s world. We gather and are nourished to be sent into our swiftly changing context to plant the Good News of Jesus.
Pastor Anderson will explore four key pivots that Faith+Lead believes God is calling us to focus on as we seek to serve our communities and God’s world, He will focus on planting seeds around the fourth pivot for God’s Church in small town and rural settings, the “Pivot in Leadership: From Clergy-Led/Lay-Supported to Lay-Led/Clergy-Supported Ministry” In his more extensive presentation he will invite and challenge us to imagine and engage in Faithful Innovation in Rural and Small Town Settings: Three Key Moves.
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