Good day to each one reading this. My return flight last night was cancelled, so I had to take a later plane, which meant returning in the midst of the wind and rain! However, ABSW had a good visit with the ATS team and are looking forward to the preliminary report from the team today.
I’d like to turn our thoughts to the fourth “edge” or “mission priority” narrative from the leader team that met last month. This one is on “Sharing the Evergreen Story.” The small group offered this narrative:
“The Evergreen Story and current events are on the internet, in the newspaper, on facebook and twitter and whatever new thing is coming along. A good quality production video of Evergreen is on UTube and available on DVD.
People in Evergreen have conversations with lots of people wherever they are about Evergreen.
There are young adults and teenagers involved in the life of Evergreen, they are at all events and meetings.
More churches/organization are using consensus in their decision making process. Creative ways of power sharing (such as caucuses) are being developed and used. More churches are using Kaleidoscope Bible Study, Respect Communication Guidelines, Mutual Invitation in the life of their churches.
Annually congregations are added to the Evergreen family because we are planting church—especially Hispanic/Latino(a) and Native American churches. More congregations are joining Evergreen because they are embracing the benefits of associating with American Baptist Churches and Evergreen.
Every church has an Evergreen Storyteller who keeps the Evergreen story before the congregation with the result that more people are attending events and understanding the relationship between the local church and Evergreen Association.”
What does this inspire in you? How do you connect with the Evergreen story? What is your Evergreen story? We’d like to start by publishing more Evergreen stories in our Newsletter. Do you have something to share? Please contact us through the contact page or directly to me at marciaeba@comcast.net
Marcia
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