Left to right Mark Akridge Taccoa First UMC Elaine Latore Wesley Chapel UMC Marlena Salters Impact UMC Donna Alexander Hogansville First UMC Jamie Weaver Epworth UMC Back row Ben Green ID: 361335
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Pure in Heart
Left to right: Mark Akridge, Taccoa First UMC
Elaine Latore,
Wesley Chapel UMC
Marlena Salters,
Impact UMC
Donna Alexander,
Hogansville First UMC
Jamie Weaver,
Epworth UMC
Back row: Ben Green,
Acworth UMC
Pete Fleming,
Five Springs UMCSlide3
Key Vital Congregation Ministry Strategies
Key Ministry Strategy Number 9:
Vital pastors use their influence to increase participation of others in order to accomplish changes in the church.
Key Ministry Strategy Number 10:
Vital pastors motivate the congregation to set and achieve significant goals through effective leadership.
Key Ministry Strategy Number 16:
Vital churches use more multi-media in contemporary worship.Slide4
Group Process
Steps
Study the Vital Signs initiative through the Call to Action Steering Committee Report, the Conference website and the umc.org website
.
Develop additional questions to better define each of our three key ministry
strategies, twelve questions in all.
Conduct interviews with our pastors to determine
their responses to
our
questions.
Develop a
composite video and a written summary of
their responses
.
Prepare
our report.Slide5
Toccoa First UMC
Pastor John BrownSlide6
Vital Sign #9:
Vital Pastors use their influence to increase the participation of others in order to accomplish changes in the church.
Toccoa First changed the order of worship in the traditional service to make it more in line with the order of worship in the Book of Worship and the hymnal
Ministries and programs have been effective – rather than change, Toccoa First has explored ways to make sure these programs are efficient and effective as possible
Changes being made to the physical buildingSlide7
Vital Sign #10:
Vital pastors motivate the congregation to set and achieve significant goals through effective leadership
.
The pastor has to be a visionary and lay out a clear vision for what God has in store for the church
The pastor can help people be the best servant of Jesus Christ that they can be
What difference would it make to the community if our church was not here anymore?
If leaders articulate a clear vision then the congregation can connect the dots – it gives meaning to all that we do and gives people passion for ministrySlide8
Vital Sign #16:
Vital Churches use more multi-media in contemporary worship.
Toccoa First has a full multi-media presentation at one service and it’s our most well attended service
Multimedia is important but if there’s no message then it’s irrelevant Slide9
Five Springs UMC
Pastor Ann FlemingSlide10
Vital Sign #9:
Vital Pastors use their influence to increase the participation of others in order to accomplish changes in the church.
I conduct a congregation-wide planning session every six months.
I try to be open to and to encourage ideas from the congregation.
I always involve the congregation in implementation of changes. Slide11
In order to set realistic goals, I always inform the congregation of conference and denominational matters, such as the Vital Church initiative.
The pastor must build trust through her or his actions.
At Five Springs we jointly set clear goals.
The pastor must involve the people in the pews. They are in the community.
Follow Paul’s example.
Vital Sign #10:
Vital pastors motivate the congregation to set and achieve significant goals through effective leadership.Slide12
Vital Sign #16:
Vital Churches use more multi-media in contemporary worship.
This small (50 members) rural church does not routinely use multi-media in worship.
We do provide visual aids when possible.
We have established a good audio system.
We use various media (videos, Internet) in small groups.
We use social media for outreach.Slide13
Pastor James Gwin
Acworth UMCSlide14
#9 Vital pastors use their influence to increase the participation of others in order to accomplish changes in the church by:
Adapting to the unique period of growth and challenges for the church.
Taking periods of transitions (staff changes ex. youth director) and turning into a positive
Recognizing the need to handle transition periods differently than in the past.
Ex. For interim period bring in persons outside the youth group to direct so that vital leadership would not get “burned out” and be fresh to help during the transition after the arrival of the new youth director.
“A wise pastor will identify key “influencers” in the congregation and start a dialogue regarding the need to recognize and initiate change.
Don’t wait on congregational leadership to respond for pastor’s guidance
Use “education and motivation as tools”, in an open, transparent, respectful way.”
Avoid “manipulating and trying to “out-flank” the other side leads to long-term distrust and less than ideal results.Slide15
#10: Vital pastors motivate the congregation to set and achieve significant goals through effective leadership by:
Open effective communication as important leadership quality
to educate, motivate, persuade, equip, and empower others to “own” goals and work toward achieving them.
done one-on-one through a personal connection based on trust.
Recognizing that helping to achieve a goal is a critical step in vitality.
Reaching or progressing toward a goal builds momentum, trust in leadership, and ownership by all.
Achieving one goal makes the congregational “self-esteem” go up and there is an overall improvement in confidence in achieving future goals.
Likewise churches will decline if they are not motivated to keep moving toward a goal.
You cannot be a vital congregation without achieve a goal – or many goals. It is the desire to do better that breathes life into a congregation.
Recognizing that good leaders can and will help a group
Focus on what is important, negotiate the unexpected, and organize in a way to make clear progress toward a goal
A great leader, can do this while rising up other leaders.Slide16
#16 Vital churches use more multi-media in contemporary worship by:
Increased use of “home made” videos and “social media” for communication
Has had a direct, positive impact that builds excitement and resonates with worshippers under forty years old.
And some would never see or experience can become a part of worship whether it is going on an Africa Mission or seeing children laughing at VBS.
Using visual aspects of video and or photography such as nature scenes to convey a liturgical season of or segue into a sermon theme.
Using videos posted at the church web-site “Welcome to AUMC”, post announcements, and present testimonies.
Using pictures “photos of faces” are powerful as well as videos
activity comes alive to convey the sights, sounds, energy, enthusiasm, and spirit of a church event and the participants in a way that cannot be by just saying “we had a great VBS last week”.
Using less PowerPoint (Media Shout) slide show – useful but limited in impact.
Continue to look ahead and improve by upgrading and improving multi-media capability and technology.Slide17
Wesley Chapel UMC
Pastor William Bert Neal, Jr.Slide18
PASTOR NEAL’S REVIEW VITAL CONGREGATION
START UP CHURCH - LONG EXISTING CHURCH
CHURCH INVOLVEMENT/INPUT
EVANGELISM
ATTRACT YOUTH/ YOUNG ADULT WITH SOCIAL MEDIASlide19
Impact UMC
Pastor Olu BrownSlide20
We must make sure that the right people are in the right position
One of the most significant leadership qualities is vision
Great leaders know how to delegate
ALL THREE KEY MINISTRY STRATEGIESSlide21
Lay people are essential to the vitality of the church and must be committed to change
Leaders must be instrumental in connecting the dots to facilitate change
At Impact, ideas are filtered through the Leadership Team first to assess the possible need for adjustment before implementation
There must be a renewal process, one should constantly set new goalsSlide22
Epworth UMC
Pastor Lisa DempseySlide23
Location, location, location
Leadership is vital
A small church can be vitalSlide24
Pastor John Alexander
Hogansville UMCSlide25
#9 Vital pastors use their influence to increase the participation of others in order to accomplish changes in the church by:
First – make sure your approach does no
harm.
Second – always use the congregation
where ever possible to help bring about
change.
Third – consistently and methodically use
scripture, experience, and reason to
initiate the needed change with the help of
the congregation.Slide26
#10: Vital pastors motivate the congregation to set and achieve significant goals through effective leadership by:
The ability to form relationships.
Through servant hood because the better
you serve, the more God raises you up to
leadership.
It is the role of the leadership to help
others to “connect the dots”.Slide27
#16 Vital churches use more multi-media in contemporary worship by:
Using social media to attract potential youth
and younger members