ReFocusing
Our goal is to strengthen leaders and churches through ReFocusing processes that lead to personal renewal for leaders and strategic focus for churches.
- Why do we need ReFocusing?
- What is ReFocusing?
- What are the benefits of ReFocusing?
- How can we participate in ReFocusing?
Why do we need ReFocusing?
Leaders need personal renewal.
Somewhere between the list of unfinished tasks and the tyranny of the urgent is God’s vision and call on your life and your church. You didn’t lack vision when you took this job, but now you sense your mission is getting buried beneath myriad demands. It’s time to refocus. You need a place and a process to hear that fresh call from God, to surrender to God’s voice again.
Congregations need corporate renewal.
Churches also come to crossroads, find themselves plateaued in their development, or get bogged down in busyness. They need to rediscover God’s calling and to reposition their ministries for greater future effectiveness.
What is ReFocusing?
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ReFocusing processes: Environments that empower change |
ReFocusing is a two-phrase revitalization process for a local church.
In Phase One of the ReFocusing process, pastors and congregational leaders experience personal renewal as they clarify their calling and surrender afresh to God’s rule in their lives.
In Phase Two of the ReFocusing process, leaders gain an understanding of God’s call on their church through a series of summits. They discover God’s unique shaping in the history of the church, clarify its values, and gain a greater understanding of its community context. Vision is crystallized and a clear ministry direction that matches the congregation’s unique shaping is identified.
What are the benefits of ReFocusing?
- Pastors and leaders gain clarity in their personal calling.
- Pastors and leaders learn to lead the church by listening to God.
- Local churches gain a heart for God and the people God loves.
- Local churches gain strategic focus.
The result is a local church healthy enough to birth new life . . . new believers, new leaders, new cells, new satellites, new churches.
How can we participate in ReFocusing?
For more information or to participate in ReFocusing, please contact Dave Jackson at the Canadian Conference of MB Churches (phone 1-888-653-9933).
Last modified: Feb 28, 2008
© 2008 Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
