C21 Network Facilitator Training

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C21 Network Facilitator Training

• A Church Planting Canada
• Endorsed Workshop

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Introductory Session
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Welcome!

• Introductory Session

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Welcome!

• Let's get acquainted.

• Please give us in 60 seconds or less
• your name
• your denominational affiliation
• your ministry role
• your expectations at this event

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The Vision

• Introductory Session

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The Vision

• Reclaiming the Great Commission
• by Bishop Claude E Payne
• Over the past decades ... the Church has lost its
  emphasis on mission, concentrating on its
  members.
• Evangelism is not a program of the Church
  rather, it is the essential work of the Church. 
  It is not an option for Christians, but an
  obligation, a fundamental commission of their
  Christ.

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The Vision

• Reclaiming the Great Commission
• by Bishop Claude E Payne
• The New Testament was a result of evangelism.
  Therefore, the Church grew out of the effort to
  carry the message of Jesus Christ.  It is a
  critical mistake to reverse the order and think
  that evangelism is a child of the Church.  The
  Church is the child of evangelism.

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The Vision

• Where there is no vision, the people perish.
• Proverbs 2918 KJV

You know better than to put new wine into old
wineskins. They would burst! The wine would be
spilled out and the wineskins ruined. New wine
needs fresh wineskins. Mark 222 TLB
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The System

• The Vision
• Model T Ford

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The System

• The System
• The Assembly Line

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The Purpose

• Introductory Session

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The Purpose

• C21 Delivery System To help introduce and
  establish an integrative, congruent, flexible
  delivery system known as C21 that cultivates the
  vision of missional denominations.

2 The Network To define, train and resource C21
leadership in the implementation of the C21's
primary vehicle, the Network.
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Overview

• Introductory Session

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Overview

• C21 Network Facilitator Training
• A Introductory Session
• B The Network
• C C21 Church Development System
• D The New Paradigm
• E Facilitator Training
• F Conclusion

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The Network
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The Big Idea

• The Network

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The Big Idea

• Definition of a Network
• Individuals gathering on a regular basis to
  accomplish a clear end with qualitatively and
  quantitatively far greater results then they
  could achieve on their own.

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The Big Idea

• Why Have a Network?
• people working together to achieve a common goal
  will have a greater result than a person working
  independently

• people work best to achieve a common goal if they
  have a systematic approach

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The Big Idea

• Let's play Survivor!

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The Atmosphere

• The Network

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The Atmosphere
Skills
Coaching
Prayer
Relationships
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The Key Components

• The Network

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The Key Components

• The life cycle of any network includes
• Health
• Using some form of church health evaluation (eg
  NCD, SonLife, Vision Renewal), participants will
  take some time to personally address the various
  health challenges of the congregations
  represented.

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The Key Components

• The life cycle of any network includes
• Leadership
• Highlighting and discussing key ministry
  leadership qualities essential to personal and
  corporate church health and growth is a key
  component.

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The Key Components

• The life cycle of any network includes
• Plan
• At each network meeting participants will further
  develop their strategic plan by making calculated
  refinements relative to applying and implementing
  that unit's main idea.

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The Key Components

• The life cycle of any network includes
• End
• Every network is Ends driven the ends vary
  depending on the network. For example, an PCN's
  end is to enable the network's participants to
  daughter a healthy church. The SPN's end is to
  enable its participants to become a healthy,
  multiplicative church.

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The Key Activities

• The Network

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The Key Activities

• Overview

Celebrating
Listening
Denominational Update
Network Activities
Committing
Caring
Training
Strategizing
Discipling
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The Key Activities

• Celebrate Wins
• Celebration sets the mood for the entire network
  meeting. Starting on a positive note lifts the
  heaviness of seasons where network attendees have
  not made significant progress. Network
  Facilitators should encourage their participants
  and discourage negativity. However
  insignificant, celebrate the positive.

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The Key Activities

• Listen Actively
• It is very important for the network meeting to
  begin with this emotional check-in. The group
  should share what's going on in life and in their
  ministry plans. It is important to check in
  personally with each network participant.

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The Key Activities

• Care Personally
• Prayer for each member is very important. Should
  the group be too large, it would be helpful to
  break up into smaller groups to accommodate these
  check-in activities.

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The Key Activities

• Strategise
• This component allows the attendee to report on
  the commitments she/he made from the last network
  meeting. There are tremendous benefits to this
  check-in time.

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The Key Activities

• Benefits of Strategising
• as each attendee reports, the others are actively
  listening and commenting, facilitating peer
  coaching
• this reporting generates goodwill amongst members
  so that success is shared

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The Key Activities

• Benefits of Strategising
• positive peer pressure reinforces itself around
  reporting results of steps taken between meetings
• the agenda for next meetings can be determined by
  what best next steps need to be taken

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The Key Activities

• Benefits of Strategising
• reporting ensures that all get a chance to
  participate in the network
• active participants will pull those who are
  falling behind
• check-in on the minimal factor will encourage
  church planting to happen as a result of health

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The Key Activities

• Training
• The training portion of the network meeting
  focuses attention on the 'end' of the network.
  Materials, which the denomination should provide
  or at least resource, can come from a number of
  sources. There are currently materials for the
  SPN, MCN and SGCN, as well as other training
  resources for Natural Church Development.

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The Key Activities

• Discipling
• This component focuses on the personal character
  development of the attendee. Throughout all the
  networks, the intent is to develop godly
  character. At least one or two components of the
  training session should include a character
  development exercise.

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The Key Activities

• Committing
• is central to network effectiveness
• moves the attendee towards the objective by self
  obligation
• provides a measure of progress
• ensures that the objective of the network is
  being approached

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The Key Activities

• Committing
• ensures that the C21 system actually produces
  something
• cultivates strategic alliances and
  interdependence amongst attendees
• moves individuals in the network towards
  collective action and reward

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The Key Activities

• Committing
• weeds out non-producers and provides evidence
  they may not be in the proper ministry
  environment doing the appropriate ministry task
• isolates those non-producers and rewards those
  who do produce

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The Key Activities

• Committing
• measures the effectiveness of initiatives taken
  so each network member can and will benefit from
  the efforts of others
• provides a means to shift paradigms and creates
  models for churches (from those which achieve
  greater returns)

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The Key Activities

• Committing
• helps contextualise the application of methods
  particularly for those churches which have
  affinity points

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The Key Activities

• Denominational Update
• This component provides an opportunity to link
  denominational overseers with the local church
  through the various networks. This is where the
  denominational office can ensure any news can be
  promoted.

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C21 Church Development System
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The Big Idea

• C21 Church Development System

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The Big Idea

• C21 Definition
• A delivery system designed to facilitate a
  variety of church health systems, programs and
  ministry philosophies and methodologies towards
  church and denominational health and
  multiplication.

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The Big Idea

• The River
• Like the banks of a river which channel the flow
  of the water, so a good church development and
  multiplication system channels the church's
  energy into productive results.

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The Big Idea

• C21 Attributes
• vision centric
• comprehensive
• integrative
• congruent
• flexible
• reproducible

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C21 Illustrated

• C21 Church Development System

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C21 Illustrated

• The Components

Networks The heart of C21 where participants
come together in regular meetings to accomplish a
specific end. Gateways Network groups,
denominations, local churches and individuals use
measurement tools of their choice for assessing.
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C21 Illustrated
Planters Path
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Churchs Path
RN - Recruitment Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Recruitment Network
• An intentional process for recruiting a pool of
  pastoral candidates for church pastoral
  leadership, focusing particularly on those with
  vision and with church development interest and
  proficiency.

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C21 Illustrated
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Planters Path
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Churchs Path
PEG - Pastor/Planter Evaluation Gateway
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C21 Illustrated

• Pastor/Planter Evaluation Gateway
• An excellent process for assessing the church
  development or church planting aptitude of
  potential pastors/planters.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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Planters Path
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Churchs Path
PDN - Pastor/Planter Development Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Pastor/Planter Development Network
• Designed to raise up and prepare church
  pastors/planters through intensive pastoral
  training. Here lay leaders learn the ropes of
  becoming church growth leaders by internship,
  mentoring and biblical study.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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Planters Path
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SPN
Churchs Path
SPN - Strategic Planning Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Strategic Planning Network
• The strategic planning network focuses on
  developing and implementing a strategic plan that
  leads to health, growth and multiplication.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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Planters Path
CEG
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SPN
Churchs Path
CEG - Church Evaluation Gateway
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C21 Illustrated

• Church Evaluation Gateway
• A CEG provides valuable information for
  undertaking effective strategic planning
  processes towards achieving optimum church
  health. Accurately gauging the present health of
  any given church influences the overall strategic
  planning process necessary to achieve healthy
  reproduction. It also helps identify churches
  already sufficiently strong and healthy to
  'birth' another congregation. Healthy churches
  produce healthy offspring (ie new church
  plants).

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
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SPN
Churchs Path
PCN - Parent Church Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Parent Church Network
• Motivates and guides the pastor and key lay
  leadership of healthy congregations through a
  step-by-step process of cultivating a positive
  church planting mindset and ultimately a
  commitment to the launching of a new congregation
  within two to three years.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
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CPS
SPN
Churchs Path
CPS - Church Planting Summit
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C21 Illustrated

• Church Planting Summit
• This summit helps orient church planters and key
  team members through a coach driven strategic
  process of designing their church plant.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
RN
CPS
SPN
Churchs Path
CSN
CSN - Church Startup Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Church Startup Network
• A supportive environment for skills training and
  coaching relationships. Planters and their team
  meet throughout their formative years of
  existence as a church plant to work through
  issues unique to those stages of development.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
RN
CPS
SPN
Churchs Path
CSN
MCN
MCN - Maturing Church Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Maturing Church Network
• The MCN helps guide planters and their teams to
  break through formidable growth barriers.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
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CPS
SPN
Churchs Path
SGCN
CSN
MCN
SGCN Small Group Church Network
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C21 Illustrated

• Small Group Church Network
• This network creates mission centred small groups
  that will provide the 'embryo' for the beginnings
  of another church.

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C21 Illustrated
PDN
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PCN
Planters Path
CEG
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CPS
SPN
Churchs Path
SGCN
CSN
MCN
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C21 Illustrated

• Coaching
• Key to the C21 system's success is coaching. A
  coach provides an objective, personalised
  perspective for the church leader to help them
  throughout the entire church development and
  multiplication process.

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C21 Illustrated
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Coaching lowers the bar of competency required to
bring about growth!
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Core Values for C21

• C21 Church Development System

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Core Values for C21

• Churches Plant Churches

This represents a major shift of responsibility
for church planting from the denominational
office to the local church. Churches reproduce
themselves, and the denomination provides the
environment and resources for church planting
success.
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Core Values for C21

• Production Capacity Is Built

This requires that leadership put time, energy
and money into developing systems to create the
environment for church planting. Denominational
leadership will need to shift resources from the
front lines of planting one church at a time, to
investing in systems that will multiply churches.
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Core Values for C21

• Leadership Is Paramount

The church rises and falls on leadership.
Denominational overseers must step forward
proactively declaring the mission, vision and
priority of church health and multiplication.
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Core Values for C21

• Mission Is Central

Just as every wheel has a hub, the denomination
must have a clearly stated and understood mission
which has a direct bearing on all ministry
endeavours.
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Core Values for C21

• Alternative Congregations Are Church Plants

Beginning an alternative congregation as a
ministry to a different group of people is
essentially planting a new church. We must plan
and prepare for this type of growth.
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Core Values for C21

• Build On Strengths

Identify your 'five-talent' churches and resource
them not, of course, to the exclusion of
struggling churches, but to enable healthy,
growing churches and their leadership to become
the engine that pulls the church planting train.
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The New Paradigm
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Where Have We Come From?

• The New Paradigm

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Where Have We Come From?

• absence of assessment

• committee and denominationally based planting
• absence of coaching
• absence of partnering between denominations

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Where Have We Come From?

• minimal delivery systems

• little sharing of technique and results
• absence of planter training
• an overall 'shotgun' approach to planting
• enormous losses in finances, manpower and morale

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Where Are We Now?

• The New Paradigm

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Where Are We Now?

• an emerging delivery system for fundamental
  healthy church planting systems (Century 21
  Apple Tree Project)

• fully developed profile assessment systems for
  determining the behavioral aptitude of
  prospective planters (PAS)
• a truly Canadian Church Planting Summit for
  church planters and their teams (CPS)

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Where Are We Now?

• the partnering of denominations to achieve
  fundamental Kingdom goals

• the preliminary establishment of networks in a
  number of key denominations across Canada

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Where Are We Going?

• The New Paradigm

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Where Are We Going?

• From Addition to Multiplication

• from church plants to reproducing churches
• from producing product to production capacity
• multiplication of leaders is not a basic DNA
  building block of many programs or initiatives -
  emphasis is too much skewed toward product or
  program facilitation
• apprenticeship has not infiltrated all areas of
  leadership

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Where Are We Going?

• From Numbers to Health

• maintaining health throughout the growth and
  multiplication of the church
• ongoing health checkups rather than crisis or
  programmed checkups
• health programs such as NCD are confused and
  thought to be just another program

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Where Are We Going?

• From Numbers to Health

• numbers are often the criteria to determine
  readiness for planting rather than health

• unhealthy core groups produce unhealthy church
  plants

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Where Are We Going?

• From Standardised to Component

• canned programs often ignore a comprehensive
  strategy large enough to embrace a diversity of
  strategic environments and initiatives
• few franchised programs will admit that they are
  just one piece and baulk at the integration of
  competitors' programs

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Where Are We Going?

• From Standardised to Component

• denominations constantly have to avoid
  exclusivity and allow many resources to be adopted

• an abundance of programs with few delivery systems

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Where Are We Going?

• From Curriculum to Contextualisation

• applying principles, understanding principles,
  distinguishing principles
• it takes discernment to understand the difference
  between principle and technique

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Where Are We Going?

• From Hierarchy to Environment

• creating systems of empowerment
• balancing independence and interdependence
• playing the roles of supervisor, coach,
  consultant, mentor
• it is difficult for one person to exercise more
  than one role

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Where Are We Going?

• From Denomination Based to Network Based

• by group rather than program
• by peer rather than leader
• by consultation rather than mandate
• by choice rather than edict
• by the church rather than by the denomination

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see you tomorrow!
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