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Cultivating Missional Capacity

for Sustainability (CMC)

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This multi-year training process assists congregations in developing a vision and plan for growing the leadership and missional capacity of the congregation through a focus on discipleship, stewardship, community relationships and financial development. 

 

The final session of the initial CMC congregational teams will happen October 7-8 at Christus Lutheran in Camden, and Bishop Tracie Bartholomew will attend to help conclude the process. Congregations participating: Christ the King, Kendall Park; St. Bartholomew, Trenton; Christus, Camden; Atonement, Asbury Park; St. Paul, Collingswood; Nativity, East Brunswick; Holy Trinity, Maple Shade; and St. Mark, Oaklyn

There is interest from the ELCA churchwide office to continue with a second cohort of congregations in 2018-19.

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If you are uncertain whether your congregation is ready to particpate in this weekend series, a positive response to three or more of the questions below will provide an indication:

  1. Is your congregation stuck in scarcity thinking?

  2. Does your congregation lack a clear vision or plan?   

  3. Do your leaders struggle to adapt to a changing environment/community? 

  4. Has congregational giving been flat or declining?

  5. Is growing leaders, disciples and stewards an ongoing challenge?

  6. Is your congregation uncertain how to reach out to your changing neighborhood? 

  7. Are you ready to look for additional sources of income to complement regular giving? 

8.  Is sustaining the momentum of ministries year round a challenge?  

               

For additional information about  Cultivating Missional Capacity for Sustainability, contact the Rev. Maristela Freiberg maristela.freiberg@elca.org, the Director for Evangelical Mission and Assistant to the Bishop of the New Jersey Synod.

 

Information Sheet

Purpose and Goals

1930 State Highway 33

Hamilton Square, NJ 08690

609-586-6800

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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