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UMASCE Consultation 2009Moving Into God's Future: Educational Leadership as ImprovisationJuly 27-31, 2009 Fall Creek Falls State Park, Pikeville, Tennessee A Time of Visioning and Strategizing with Dr. Gil Rendle as our Guest Facilitator Call to the Consultation The church into which we were born no longer exists. What the new church will look like is still emerging. This reality requires new skills, structures, and processes. This reality calls for deep listening and learning as we discern where God is already at work in the world and join in partnership with God and one another. Radical transition, such as we are experiencing in the world today, requires improvisational leadership. When the old ways of doing things no longer work and we aren't sure what the new ways need to be, we improvise! Envisioned Outcomes of the Consultation 1. We will identify the “hard questions” upon which we will focus our dialogue and work with each other in the coming two years. Process and Leadership During our time together we will explore: In addition we will be following up on accomplishments of this past two years through reports and further strategy decisions Including: About Our Guest Facilitator Gil Rendle serves as Senior Consultant with The Institute for Clergy and Congregational Excellence of The Texas Methodist Foundation in Austin Texas and as an independent consultant working with issues of change and leadership in denominations and large churches. Prior to this position he served the Alban Institute as an author, seminar leader and senior consultant for twelve years. An ordained United Methodist minister, Rendle served as senior pastor of two urban congregations in Pennsylvania for sixteen years and as a denominational consultant for The United Methodist Church for nine years. Location Fall Creek Falls State Park is located in a beautiful area of eastern Tennessee near Pikeville, TN, approximately 2 hours drive from Nashville and 1-1/2 hours from Chattanooga. The location was chosen especially to encourage more of the staff of GBOD and Cokesbury to participate. We will let you know about arrangements for shuttles from Nashville or Chattanooga as plans progress. Costs |
Our Officers for 2007-2009President: Patty Meyers Documents from 2007 ConsultationMinutes of the Business Meeting About this Web SiteIt seems best to use this web site more as a location for documents to which we need to refer than for ongoing information, except for the purpose of providing for consultation registration, etc. The list of members of UMASCE will no longer contain contact information, so if you are wishing to locate someone please contact Ben Marshall at rben@airmail.net and he will provide you with how to contact that person. This change seems best for security purposes.
BECOMING A MEMBER OF UMASCE If you are not already a member, or have let your membership lapse in the last year or so, we strongly encourage you to join or renew your membership now. The Building the Future project is a very important one and will yield some exciting results, but only if we have everyone possible working on it. You can join or renew by simply clicking here on Member Sign-Up and filling out the information and sending it on by email. Then send your check for $35 for regular membership or $17.50 for retired or student membership to the address foung on that page. If you have questions or need further help please email Ben Marshall at rben@airmail.net.
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