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Cultivar una cultura de discernimiento ✓
El liderazgo y la supervisión de las comunidades de fe son de suma importancia. Sin embargo, las iglesias a menudo tienen miembros de la junta parroquial que se desempeñan como administradores de operaciones o defensores de comités o de proyectos …
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Let Your Light Shine Through ✓
Given all that energy and the challenges of the time we live in, it feels like a good time to expand the opportunities for lay leadership beyond the church walls.
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Vestry work in real life: New vision ✓
How does true spiritual discernment work with nuts-and-bolts issues like vision statements and parish budgets?
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Cultivating a culture of discernment ✓
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in St. Paul, MN has been re-envisioning the role of the vestry over the last five years: inviting vestry members to understand their role as that of a spiritual discernment team.
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Different Styles, Different Gifts
The process of making such decisions have enormous capacity to bring together or tear apart vestries.
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Editor's Note
In preparing this issue, we put out a nationwide call to those working with youth: clergy, youth ministers, vestry members, etc.
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A Bible Study for Difficult Decisions
How can you tell when a ministry is no longer viable?
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Clothing Ourselves with Christ
It is early evening, and traffic is heavy in the city as people head home for dinner and a night’s rest.
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Vestry discernment begins with the soul
Nuts and bolts issues are more effectively and efficiently addressed when vestries focus first on key questions having to do with discernment and key values.
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Discerning youthful calls
When asked, “When did you know you were called to ordained ministry?” I always begin with the story of Mrs. White.
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Discerning individual gifts on the vestry
How do you understand your purpose as a vestry member? How do you know what God wants of you during your term on the vestry – or in the rest of your life?
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