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Resource: Congregations with a School
Does your congregation also have a school? Here are links to resources developed by the National Association of Episcopal Schools and other resources related to church-school partnerships. https://www.episcopalschools.org/about-naes/mission-purpose
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Formación de equipos fuertes: Una herramienta para identificar cinco áreas de disfunción comunes y m
La asesora de ECF Vital Teams Rosa Lindahl cree que la capacidad de un equipo de liderazgo de avanzar hacia el futuro depende de su habilidad de funcionar de maneras efectivas. ¿Qué podemos hacer nosotros, como líderes de feligresías, para hablar más abierta y honestamente sobre las maneras en que las relaciones entre nosotros podrían reforzarse y profundizarse?
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Building Strong Teams: A Tool for Identifying and Addressing Five Common Areas of Dysfunction
ECF Vital Teams consultant Rosa Lindahl believes a leadership team’s capacity to move into the future depends on its ability to function effectively. What can we, as congregational leaders, do to discuss more openly and honestly the ways in which our relationships with each other could be strengthened and built up?
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Episcopalians on Baptismal Mission
Episcopalians on Baptismal Mission is a community of individuals and groups dedicated to the mission and ministry of all the baptized in daily life. Our vision is a church that sees the Dismissal as its primary focus: where its liturgy, pastoral care, Christian formation, and communications are directed toward "equipping the saints" for their mission and ministry in their daily lives.
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Lenten Resources
Trying to remember where you saw that Lenten resource? ECF Vital Practices maintains a curated list of resources created by various faith organizations.
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Episcopal Share - A Book of Common Prayer for Social Media
A lay-led ministry project, Episcopal Share is an unofficial Book of Common Prayer for Twitter. The BCP prayers have been shortened here to 140-characters or less. You are free to share and copy and paste these prayers. Prayers in quotes are direct from BCP, unquoted text is modified from BCP.
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Church Leadership Conference: ECF Presentations
ECF offered a number of workshops the 2014 Church Leadership Conference: Unlocking the New Church. Copies of some of the presentations are offered below.
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Las diferencias entre los Católicos Romanos y los Anglicanos
Una entrevista con el Rev. Alberto Cutié realizado por Maria Elvira Salazar sobre las diferencias entre los Católicos Romanos y los Anglicanos. Es una discusión buena sobre la identidad y espiritualismo de la Iglesia Episcopal.
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The Vestry Hand-Off: Orientation for new members
The Annual Meeting is over, new leaders have been elected and it’s time to start working together. How do you transition from the former leadership team to the new team? This resource may help.
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Consent Agendas
Looking for ways to make your meetings more productive? Consider adopting the practice of using a consent agenda.