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How Your Congregation Learns : The Learning Journey from Challenge to Achievement - Rev. Tim Shapiro

How Your Congregation Learns

The Learning Journey from Challenge to Achievement

By: Rev. Tim Shapiro

Paperback | 9 June 2017

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Change isn't always easy or intuitive. How Your Congregation Learns introduces churches and leaders-both lay and ordained-to the process of the learning journey. By understanding learning dynamics and working to become a learning community, the congregation will be able to move more purposefully to achieve its goals. Congregations face many kinds of challenges. Some are mundane-the roof leaks; the parking lot needs repaving; the microphones don't work well. Some tests are transcendent-how should lives be honored?; what is God calling the congregation to do and be?; how can generosity be taught? Throughout life people face challenges for which they are not prepared-the death of a parent, a new job offer, making a decision about where to live. So it goes that congregational leaders face challenges that are just beyond the grasp of their abilities. This book addresses the just-beyond-the-grasp challenges. Effectively addressing new challenges is connected to a congregation's ability to learn. This book outlines the learning process to enable leaders to be more effective and creative change-agents for congregations. The book shares real examples of congregations learning and changing, and offers a wealth of information to facilitate the learning and change process.
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If you are looking for a way to engage your congregation in living its mission and addressing ever-increasing demands, then How Your Congregation Learns is the resource you need. Tim Shapiro provides a unique and much-needed understanding of how to transform the congregation into a learning community ready to take on new initiatives. How Your Congregation Learns provides a practical process-with lots of congregational examples-that will give you the knowledge and confidence to facilitate change and create innovation. -- John Roberto, president, LifelongFaith Associates In many congregations, the best ideas die on the vine or fizzle after the first try, because they exceed current capacity. But what if the daunting goal is to actually generate new capacity for effective mission, today and tomorrow? "Learning to learn" is the key to unlocking new strengths in congregations-even the smallest ones-and this book reveals how this powerful and sacred process actually works. -- Alice Mann, Congregational Consulting Group

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Published: 15th June 2017

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