The Elders desire to move the church forward through ReFocusing processes that lead to personal renewal for leaders and strategic focus for churches.
- Why do we need ReFocusing?
- What is ReFocusing?
- What are the benefits of ReFocusing?
- How can we participate in ReFocusing?
Dave Jackson, from the Canadian Conference of MB Churches, will facilitate this process. As a former pastor, he has developed the process over a number of years, initially working in the secular community.
Why do we need ReFocusing?
Leaders need personal renewal.
Somewhere between the list of unfinished tasks and the tyranny of the urgent is God’s vision and call on your life and your church. You didn’t lack vision when you took this job, but now you sense your mission is getting buried beneath a myriad of demands. It’s time to refocus. You need a place and a process to hear that fresh call from God—to surrender to God’s voice again.
Congregations need corporate renewal.
Churches also come to crossroads, find themselves having reached a plateau in their development, or become bogged down in busyness. They need to rediscover God’s calling and to reposition their ministries for greater future effectiveness.
What is ReFocusing?
ReFocusing is a two-phase revitalization process for a local church.
In Phase One of the ReFocusing process, elders, pastors and congregational leaders experience personal renewal as they clarify their calling and surrender afresh to God’s rule in their lives.
In Phase Two of the ReFocusing process, leaders gain an understanding of God’s call on their church through a series of summits. Leaders discover God’s unique shaping in the history of the church, clarify the church’s values, and gain a greater understanding of its community context. Vision is crystallized and a clear ministry direction that matches the congregation’s unique shaping is identified.
ReFocusing processes: Environments that empower change
What are the benefits of ReFocusing?
- Pastors and leaders gain clarity in their personal calling.
- Pastors and leaders learn to lead the church by listening to God.
- Local churches gain a heart for God and the people God loves.
- Local churches gain strategic focus.
The result is a local church healthy enough to birth new life: new believers, new leaders, new cells, new satellites, and new churches.
How can we participate in ReFocusing?
The congregation at large is invited to share in the process by joining together on three Sunday evenings. These evenings will follow the leadership gatherings, and will review their findings, give feedback and make additional suggestions. This will allow all of the congregation the opportunity to be vitally involved in the process as it happens.
Events - Leadership
Elders, pastors and congregational leaders will attend three weekend events, going through the three phases.
- Feb 12 & 13 - Phase One - Personal renewal
- March 12 & 13 - Phase Two - Summit 1 - Where have we been?
- April 9 & 10 - Phase Two - Summit 2 - Where are we going?
- May 7 & 8 - Phase Two - Summit 3 - How do we get there?
Events - Congregation
Congregation is invited to participate in followup and feedback to leadership findings.
- March 14 - Phase Two - Summit 1
- April 11 - Phase Two - Summit 2
- May 16 - Phase Two - Summit 3