PowerPoint Presentation General Board of Discipleship

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GBOD Purpose

• We help churches
• fulfill their mission!

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GBOD Vision

• Disciples made,
• leaders developed,
• Christians formed,
• the church renewed,
• the world transformed

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• Connectional Conversation Project
• A Journey Across the
• Connection

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Purpose

• To share a conversation among annual conference
  leaders and GBOD staff members about the hopes
  and challenges of each annual conference and
• to discern opportunities for partnerships,
  support
• and resources.

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Process

• 57 annual conferences visited
• Bishop, plus a small team of leaders
• June 2002 March 2004
• 2 GBOD staff representatives, Bible study,
  conversation, and follow-up summary to bishop and
  DCM
• Data entered into database
• Current processing of findings recommendations

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CCP Facts
GBOD Staff
Conferences
Bishops
19
57
45
700
Conference Leaders
5954
Total Reponses
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A Sampling of Questions

• What issues and challenges do you face as an
  annual conference in moving into Gods future?
• What resources (human and material) have you
  found most helpful in your work?

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Questions

• What resources do you wish you had?
• What else does the GBOD need to know about
  future possibilities of partnership, networking,
  and working together?

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• CONCLUSIONS

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• Leadership Development
• is the top need!

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• Funding is a struggle.

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• Diversity is a crucial issue.

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• Help is needed in
• church revitalization.

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• GBOD resources are valued.
• GBOD needs to communicate and market better.

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• Training is valued and must be geared to needs.

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• Resources using
• technology are desired.

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• Many conferences WANT to partner with us!

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NEW DIRECTIONS

• An interest in coaching
• One source for all UMC resources and
  cooperation among the general agencies

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Recommendations

• Report findings to general church,
  jurisdictional, conference and local church
  leaders.
• Tie findings to other research at GBOD, including
  the communications audit.
• Apply findings to evaluate all the work of GBOD,
  including resources we provide.
• Use findings as a foundation to partner with
  annual conferences.

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