Month: September 2013

We began by brainstorming the things we wanted to talk about. Patterns emerged, and from them, we were able to come up with break-out sessions where people interested in those topics could talk and share ideas. Notes:

Brainstorming

Discernment

Community as organizing tool

The HOW of sharing gifts

Build community with integrity

Relate to multigen

Also, uplifting the communities already present

Expect/display community

Live/uncertainty/faith

Honor history + momentum

Gaps – Good idea/no participation + participation unwilling for new ideas

Spiritual practice to sustain mission

Big Mission – 3 Rs: relocation, redistribution, reconciliation – a Wabisabi kingdom

Living in intentional community

Networking as sustenance

Fuel/renew purpose/Rediscern

Integrity within differences

Listening to difference with humility and compassion

Why

Culture shift – missional in attractional. Influence. Both/and

Build/maintain/share

The Church v A Church

Breakout Sessions

Discernment – What is my/our mission and why? What about doubt/uncertainty/faith?

How? Now that I know the direction, resources, techniques, funding, etc.

Relationship – w/communities I serve, serve with; maintaining integrity of missional group, all gens. What about relationship when we are different?

Sustenance – spiritual practice, networking with other servants, types of fuel.

Institutional – tensions between past/future and stasis/momentum.

Meta-Mission – philosophy, theory, abstract ideas, theology

Take-Away –

Black = forward energy

Gratitude

Permission

Integrity of process

Trust-building/cohesion/patience

Worthiness of service/servant

Yes. And ….

Process of co-creation

Trust/Acceptance of self

Risk!

Ancestors – Humiliati

Growing in self-awareness

Stay on the path. Collect Communitas

KISS – Keep it Simple & Silly

You have a Tribe (PLAY!)

We amplify each other.

Red = Blocks

Wearing many hats/limited

Recall we are all human

Forget to listen.

Struggle to be who we claim

Risk Aversion

Song:

Let us go out ….

… and light up the dark

… bring joy to each heart

…. with indifference destroyed

… with joy!

 

“The Church With Heart has a heart full of love for not only its members, but for the people outside its doors. Because this is what Unitarian Universalism is all about – it’s about having faith that love is infinite, undying, and there’s plenty to go around for all of us, so we need to love one another within the church, and then take that love outside the church because Lazarus is right outside our gate, starving for our crumbs, and even our crumbs are valuable because the Lazaruses outside our gate are starving for acceptance, for nourishing food for their minds and souls, for a listening ear, for relationship, for purpose.”

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