As part of a larger B.C. Fellowship initiative Dr. Larry Perkins will be forming a learning community for church board chairs in January 2010. It will run for six months (January to June 2010), meeting monthly for two hours at the NBS Fosmark campus (specific time to be determined). This initial group will meet face-to-face.
A learning community gives opportunity for a 6 – 10 people to engage in serious discussion and reflection with accountability over a specific period of time with a view to developing leadership capacity in a focused area of ministry.
This particular learning community will create an opportunity for church board chairs to dialogue together about challenges they encounter in their ministry leadership, prayerfully encourage one another in this significant work, and enhance their capacity to serve in this role.
Participants will commit to reading 300 – 400 pages of material over the six months, participate in an online forum, engage seriously and confidentially in discussions, and be willing to be held accountable for mutually agreed growth goals.
The cost for participation in the six sessions will be $50, plus the cost of purchasing T.J.Addington, High Impact Church Boards (about $26).
If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr. Perkins using the form below no later than January 10, 2010.
By embracing dialogue rather than proclamation as an approach to engage people with our faith, are we selling out to cultural pressures? By choosing the route of Significant Conversations because it is more comfortable and natural for us in our pluralist society, does this mean we are neglecting our call to proclaim the gospel? Are we in danger of “watering down the gospel” by presenting it as only one of many beliefs? This article explores the reasons why dialogue represents an appropriate contextualization of evangelism that fits with our cultural “language” and mood, rather than an inappropriate capitulation to societal pressures.