2022 MACBF Annual Meeting Breakout Sessions - March 26, 2022
Self-Care in the Wake of Crises
This session is a review of a DMin project for Wesley Theological Seminary. The first half of the session will focus on the inspiration for the project question, the Biblical Theological Component, the Self- Care practices, project implementation, and the conclusions including results and recommendations for future iterations. The second half of the session will allow for attendee engagement and include discussion on how attendees might apply these findings to their own ministry settings.
This session is a review of a DMin project for Wesley Theological Seminary. The first half of the session will focus on the inspiration for the project question, the Biblical Theological Component, the Self- Care practices, project implementation, and the conclusions including results and recommendations for future iterations. The second half of the session will allow for attendee engagement and include discussion on how attendees might apply these findings to their own ministry settings.
Less Planning, More Practicing: Building the future together through shared action.
Many of us remember those old strategic planning binders that helped us do things better. Teams worked for months to make marginal improvements in the hopes of exponential gains. When these 5-year-plans worked, they did so because the lived into a future that greatly resembled the past.
These days, 5-month planning is impossible, let alone 5 years! The only plan with any certainty is something unprecedented is just around the corner. In such an uncertain time, how do we plan if we can’t? We start with practice.
This breakout will quickly review the days of yore and move into some practices that will help us both prepare for and shape our futures in meaningful way. It will close by providing practical exercises, or practices, we all can engage in to make a difference as we navigate an uncertain future.
Many of us remember those old strategic planning binders that helped us do things better. Teams worked for months to make marginal improvements in the hopes of exponential gains. When these 5-year-plans worked, they did so because the lived into a future that greatly resembled the past.
These days, 5-month planning is impossible, let alone 5 years! The only plan with any certainty is something unprecedented is just around the corner. In such an uncertain time, how do we plan if we can’t? We start with practice.
This breakout will quickly review the days of yore and move into some practices that will help us both prepare for and shape our futures in meaningful way. It will close by providing practical exercises, or practices, we all can engage in to make a difference as we navigate an uncertain future.
The Justice Formation Fellowship
Hear about a group of Churches working together to understand Biblical Justice and how it calls us to respond to the world around us. The Justice Formation Fellowship is a fellowship of churches who support the Institute of Justice Formation. The Institute for Justice Formation exists: (1) to investigate and promote the transformational character of biblical justice for leaders and communities, and (2) to advocate—across all vocations—for leaders and lay persons in public marketplaces and private domains to do what is right and just intrinsically, to be a ‘profile in courage.’ Employing the multi-pronged investigative approach of worship, education, advocacy, and evaluation (plus systemic feedback) pursuant to its vision and mission, IJF will accomplish relevant and evolving goals and objectives through the synthesis or convergence of these approaches.
Hear about a group of Churches working together to understand Biblical Justice and how it calls us to respond to the world around us. The Justice Formation Fellowship is a fellowship of churches who support the Institute of Justice Formation. The Institute for Justice Formation exists: (1) to investigate and promote the transformational character of biblical justice for leaders and communities, and (2) to advocate—across all vocations—for leaders and lay persons in public marketplaces and private domains to do what is right and just intrinsically, to be a ‘profile in courage.’ Employing the multi-pronged investigative approach of worship, education, advocacy, and evaluation (plus systemic feedback) pursuant to its vision and mission, IJF will accomplish relevant and evolving goals and objectives through the synthesis or convergence of these approaches.