Diocesan Clergy In-Service
The Diocesan Clergy In-Service Program for 2010 is a new program designed to support, assist and enrich your ministry. The program will be combined with the Year 2 and Year 3 Graduate Clergy program and all Diocesan Clergy are welcome to attend.
You will have been sent information from the Archbishop (via email) detailing the In-Service program, including the schedule and an application form. If you would like to attend any sessions please fill out an application form and return to Lyn Lamb via post, fax or email . Please keep a copy for your records. Sessions will begin at 9am and finish by 4.30pm and will be held at published locations.
The first session will be held by Ralph Bowles on 16-17 March at Brookfield Spirituality Centre on the topic of Natural Church Development. If you would like to attend these sessions please call and pay as soon as possible. Otherwise, one month’s notice is required for the subsequent sessions.
Cost: $25 per day (payable at time of booking)
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be supplied; however, if you have special dietary requirements please bring your own.
Payment:
Payments can be made by cheque (made out to The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane) or by EFT via:
BSB: 084-004
Account No.: 038304 202
Account Name: Anglican Church
Reference: Clergy Trg SURNAME (please add your surname)
If you have any queries please email Lyn Lamb at ddd@anglicanbrisbane.org.au.
Natural Church Development
Natural Church Development is a research-based approach to fostering the health and potential growth of local congregations. Through the largest scientific study carried out on the life of churches around the world, the researchers have identified the universal principles that contribute under God to the growth of churches. NCD uses a survey, standardized to the Australian norm for churches, which identifies the key quality characteristics that affect the health and growth of a church.
But NCD is more than a set of empirical results about church life; it is also a paradigm for approaching the renewal of the quality of church life. A church works to remove what may be hindering the improvement of the quality of a particular area of church life. As the quality is gradually raised, so does the potential for numerical growth and other beneficial changes.
Clergy will find Natural Church Development to be more than just another program for ministry; it is a way of viewing church life and one’s own place in it. In order for the improvement of church life to proceed, the time comes when the priest-in-charge must break through “the spiritual glass ceiling” – that situation where it is the leader himself or herself who is eventually the principal barrier to growth. Natural Church Development invites all church leaders and members to become more balanced in God’s strength and purposes.
