By Dave Harder
Flipping the Script on Church Owned Property
Church Anew's Mark Elsdon is confident that We Aren't Broke.
The Kaleo Center offers this excellent resource on Sevenfold Social Transformation: excellent reading for vision, mission, and identity discernment; outreach and organizing discussions; and community engagement decisions.
Joerg Rieger and Tripp Fuller, founder of the Home-brewed Christianity podcast, host an online course: Capital Change: The End of Religion and Business as Usual.
From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion
Brian McLaren and Convergence provide an online, on-demand continuing education program for clergy and laity who want to strengthen their church while preparing for the cultural changes that impact ministry. Built to train lay and ordained leaders as spiritual activists in a growing, multi-denominational movement of just and generous Christianity, the courses include:
Courses can be purchased individually for $69. Small group and congregation pricing also available. Interested in purchasing all 6? Contact Convergence for pricing.
CONVERGENCE offers numerous training webinars and courses for emerging church leadership, for individuals and teams. Their, How to Use Your Church Campus As a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization or Online Small Group Curriculum for Your Church are options to invite your entire congregation to "imagine a new future for your church".
Offers free monthly webinars around the theme, Adapting to a New Reality: Living into a Fresh Vision for God's Church.
Innovation Lab's Cohorts walk through their five-phase Theological Innovation Process, then partner with a trained coach from outside the faith community (and innovators from around the country) in an 18-month journey toward organizational transformation.