How to Supercharge Your Congregation Through Community Partnerships!
This event is brought to you by the TryTank Experimental Lab in partnership with the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary
Would you like to connect your congregation deeper to your neighborhood? Has the Holy Spirit called you to do more than your current resources allow? As part of our 1730 Project focusing on smaller congregations (but open to all!), TryTank invites you to participate in two hands-on webinars that will show you, step-by-step, how you can supercharge your congregation through community partnerships.
Both 90 minute webinars will be from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Eastern.
Webinar #1 on June 2: Connect with Your Neighborhood Through Community Listening
Listening to people in the neighborhood around the church is vital to sharing God’s love with the community. Get to know your church’s neighbors better while discovering the assets, needs, and dreams in your area. A listening process reveals where God is already at work, builds connections with people and organizations already invested in the neighborhood, and often leads to “aha!” insights for more strategic community ministry. This webinar will describe basic listening activities and outline practical steps to a rewarding listening process, including developing an effective listening team.
Webinar #2 on June 9: The Power of Community Partnerships
Great ideas for community ministry can often best be implemented by partnering with others, such as schools, other churches, nonprofits, and businesses. Putting resources and ideas together with a partner can help the church make a greater impact on the many issues facing our communities. This webinar will share many examples of fruitful partnerships and strategies for making partnerships work. Participants will take away specific ideas for identifying partners in their own communities along with first steps toward building a partnering relationship.
Your one registration gets you access to both webinars. If you cannot make either or any of the webinars, still register so that you can get the recordings (in video and audio form) to engage on your schedule.