CONGREGATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
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Office of Congregationa Development Resources
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Studying your Congregation & Community
The Office of Congregational Development provides an interactive tool for you to better understand your congregation and your community. You can look at the social and demographic characteristics of the local community, this helps a congregation better understand the people to which we hope to minister. You can look at trends in membership, average worship attendance, and financial giving to understand the strength of a congregation and whether current patterns indicate growth, decline or stability.
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Congregational Life Cycle Presentation
Everything has a natural life cycle. Birth, growth, stability, and change are all a part of a parish's life cycle. The Office of Congregational Development provides this PowerPoint presentation on the life cycle of parishes to better understand the complexities of the life of a congregation. Where is your parish?
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Congregational Vitality Series
The following resources are from The Office of Congregational Development. They are available in PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat to view these files.
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Congregational Development Seminars
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Start Up Start Over
Sponsored by the Office of Congregational Development and coordinated in partnership with the Episcopal Church Building Fund. This seminar is for people who believe that church is about the transformation of people’s lives. It provides practical, goal oriented congregational development and growth training.
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Upward Bound
For the primary congregational leader who has primary responsibility for leading and managing the congregation through change and growth. The goal is to heighten your awareness and skills required to lead congregations in times of change and transition. The training is highly interactive, includes teaching, role-play, conversation, and personal reflection.
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