Category: Innovation
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Investing in trust – 7 ideas for building trusting relationships
Investing in trust – 7 ideas for building trusting relationships As the anonymous quote goes, “It takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it.” In a recent webinar I attended, a group of parish leaders from around the diocese discussed strategies for increasing inter-parish collaboration, and the foundational role that trust…
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BIBLE360: Exploring the Gospels via webinar
By Fiona Hammond, Lay Ministry Education Projects Officer An Impressionist artist and a Cubist artist walk into a bar…no wait that’s the wrong intro! What if you asked four artists, an Impressionist, a Cubist, a Realist and an Expressionist to paint your portrait? Would you expect that each would produce exactly the same image of…
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‘Caremongering’ in our communities
By Jen Basham, Justice Unit Coordinator Churches around Australia recently suspended public worship and gatherings, and other civic and business life is operating remotely or shutting doors to mitigate the risk of coronavirus spreading. A key to preventing the spread is ‘social distancing’. The word itself is a striking oxymoron, much like telling someone to…
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Where is your vision for the church?
I am the youngest child in my family. I have two older brothers and a sister and there is a five to ten year gap between them and me. When I was little, on the odd occasion my parents went out, they left my siblings in charge of themselves, of the house and of me.…
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Slow hunches and half ideas: the future of the church
Have you had an unformed idea or a hunch, that you’ve sat on for years, about the future of the church, mission and ministry? Sharing these ‘slow hunches’ and ‘half ideas’ might be a vital step in helping them come to fruition. For many years in ministry I tended to keep my ideas to myself,…