One New Thing Collaborative (Co-Lab) is a practical, collaborative approach to help local churches create a new ministry. This initiative is the creation of the Alabama West Florida Cultivators. Through this collaborative work group, Cultivators work with district-identified churches to reinvision ministry. This Co-Lab helps churches discern, identify, strategize, launch and successfully sustain a ministry expression, which will engage their community in a fresh, new way. Cultivators utilize resources like MissionInsite, listening sessions, mission and revisioning, marketing and grant matching. Churches who complete the Co-Lab process have clear achievable outcomes and results that can be used to reinvigorate new Methodist expressions throughout our conference.
What is your church's current mission and vision?
Does your mission and vision help you reach your community?
If your church ceased to exist today, what impact would this have on your community?
What is the greatest need in your community Is your church willing to help?
What are the greatest challenges within your church currently?
How can we help address these challenges, in order to start one new thing?
COLLABRATIVE GUIDED READING
The landscape of North America has Changed.
Churches find themselves in a rugged wilderness on the outskirts of culture.
At the same time, a movement is emerging from the missional edges of our oldest denominations and is working its way through the church as a whole. Thousands of fresh expressions of church are gathering with their post-Christian neighbors, embarking on a journey to follow Jesus together.
Luke Edwards will introduce you to a way through the wilderness, a lightly worn path walked by everyday people who are building communities and becoming church.