Fusion: Reimagine & Resource: Structure, Facilities, Plans, Objectives
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 88
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 88
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FUSION explores the connection between the planned program of the church and its relationship to congregational and community life. The spiritual growth and development of a congregation is essential, and the construction of community targeted, relationship-based ministry programs requires the understanding of the importance of forging lasting relationships with the community or communities surrounding a church. Fortunately, more churches are recognizing the need to establish, pursue, and strengthen their own spiritual growth and their relationship with their communities. They have taken the time to identify the unique characteristics of their communities, and reconstructed their ministry programs to address the needs of the community to the best of their ability. As they have pursued this intentional plan, they have grown closer to their communities, and found greater opportunities for ministry with eternal results.
Introduction
Congregational Programming and Community Life
Difficulties Recognized
Truth Acknowledged
Challenges Embraced
Summary
Week 1 Understanding Ministry Programming Concepts
Introduction
Ministry Programs – The “What”
What Are We Currently Doing?
Ministry Programs – The “Why”
Why Are We Doing What We’re Doing?
“We’ve always done it this way.”
“It’s what we do.”
“Change just to change?”
Change for the right reason
Ministry Programs – The “How”
How Can We Do It Better?
Identifying ministry goals
Assessing congregational needs
Congregational evaluation
Congregational profile
Revised congregational profile
Needs-based evaluation
Examining available options
Ministry Programs – The “Way Forward”
What Opportunities Fulfill Our Mission Statement?
What Opportunities Address the Most Congregational Needs?
What Opportunities Can Also Address Community Needs?
What Is the Best Way to Introduce and Implement Changes
in Ministry Programs?
Summary
Week 2 Redefining Programming for Thriving Congregations
Introduction
Leadership Communication
Leadership Communicating Well
Leadership Communicating Clearly and Consistently
Leadership Communicating Correctly
Leadership Communicating Patience
Congregational Participation
Embracing Its Identity
Actively Valuing Its Mission and Vision
Understanding Its Purpose
Engaging Change
Ministry Enlargement
The Spiritual Development of the Congregation
A Clearer Spiritual Vision of the Congregation
A Greater Spiritual Passion of the Congregation
Summary
Week 3 Programming for Spiritual Growth and Development
Introduction
Creating a “Spiritual Growth by Needs” Environment
Recognizing Spiritual Growth Needs of Every Believer
Understanding the goal of spiritual growth and development
Understanding the design of spiritual growth and development
Understanding the expectation of spiritual growth
Recognizing Spiritual Growth Needs of Couples and Families
Growing and developing spiritual men and women
Growing and developing spiritual husbands and wives
Growing and developing spiritual young people
Recognizing Spiritual Growth Needs of the Overall Congregation
Encouraging a Spiritual Growth Process
Leadership-Modeled Spiritual Growth
Relationally-Developed Spiritual Growth
Congregationally-Practiced Spiritual Growth
Intentionally Pursuing Spiritual Growth
Individual Believers Encouraging and Helping Each Other
Believers Joining Together to Produce a Spiritually Growing Congregation
A Spiritually-Minded Congregation Looks “Over the Wall”
Summary
Week 4 Programming for Community Investment
Introduction
Spiritual Growth for a Purpose
Spiritual Growth and Development Is Transformational
Spiritual Transformation Focuses Our Spiritual Sights
Spiritual Transformation Prepares Us for Spiritual Investment
Investing in Intentional Mission and Vision
Communities Let Us Bring Mission and Vision to Life
Identifying and Investing in Community Needs
Investing to Make a Difference
To Love God, Each Other, and Our Neighbors
Bringing Jesus to Life!
Making a Difference!
Summary
Karen Turner Ward holds a doctoral degree in Criticism and Public Address from Regent University. Dr. Ward has the distinction of being the first student to earn a Ph.D. from the University. Dr. Ward currently serves as Chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Hampton University where she teaches communication and theatre courses. She serves on the School of Liberal Arts and Education University 101 (First-Year Experience) Advisory Committee and assists in the development of the course curriculum. She also helped prepare the course’s interactive textbook, The Individual and Life: Your Pathway to Success. She has served as a national consultant on recruitment, assessment, and retention of African American students.
To meet student needs, Dr. Ward has incorporated innovative approaches to instruction and introduced technology into traditional instructional programming. It was this search for innovative approaches to instruct “today’s students” that inspired her to write the communication textbook, Communication for Today’s Student, now in its fourth edition. The textbook, published by Kendall Hunt Publishing, is accompanied by an interactive program, which enables students to submit assignments online, sit for digital exams, take practice tests and post-tests, and absorb the material through interactive games and flash cards. This program enables students as well as instructors to obtain immediate assessment results. The overwhelming success of this program inspired Dr. Ward to develop both the Humanities One Interactive and Humanities Two Interactive textbooks.
Dr. Ward has received numerous awards for her commitment to innovative teaching, including the coveted, E. L. Hamm Distinguished Teaching Award presented each academic year by the University President.