Developmental Ministry Launch Week is Here! Join Us August 24 – Sept 1, 2024 – All Souls Church Unitarian

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Developmental Ministry Launch Week is Here! Join Us August 24 – Sept 1, 2024

Post published:August 24, 2024
Post category:Leadership Articles / News

We Want to Hear From You

As we go into and through launch week, we are excited to hear your takeaways. Use the button below to share your thoughts, memories, and stories, or send us an email or catch us at church for a conversation. We want to capture your stories as part of the All Souls collective journey.

This developmental ministry is not about a single minister. Rather, it is about our entire congregation. We hope that you will join us as we “launch” our collective developmental ministry. Here are our hopes for this launch week:

We will grow in our collective understanding of All Souls as a congregation and of the developmental work.
We will come to listen to one another and to share our thoughts, insights, loves, concerns, and questions. Since listening is the purpose, there will be much dialogue and no formal presentations.
You will become acquainted with Rev. Anastassia, her personality and professional capabilities, and her thoughts on our developmental ministry.
We will have fun! All Souls is a community, even more than it is an institution.

Our developmental minister, the Rev. Anastassia Zinke, began with us on July 1. It has been wonderful getting to know her, and we hope you will continue to welcome her as we move into the Fall. She will continue to meet with congregants one-on-one.

Launch Week Event Schedule

Events will occur throughout the week, each with a different focus. Come to one, some, or all. If you have limited time available, we recommend prioritizing the events highlighted in orange below.

For planning purposes, it is helpful for you to RSVP for the events you plan to attend.

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Developmental Ministry Goals at All Souls

As adopted by the Board of Trustees, December 2023

During the Developmental Ministry period, All Souls will work to make progress on these goals. That work will be co-led by the Developmental Minister, in partnership with the Executive Director, and supported by the Trustees, staff, and congregation.

Recognizing that these are ambitious goals that cover a multi-year period, we understand the Developmental Minister will help us to prioritize, refine, and sequence the work needed to carry out these goals:

Establish a financially sustainable path for the church that enables us to maintain our building and carry out our mission and goals.

This includes:

Carrying forward the capital campaign to a successful completion.
Effectively managing needed building repairs and advancing the Church’s long-term financial plan.
Being faithful stewards of our financial obligations now and in the future
Considering our potential for growth.

Foster spiritual repair and restoration that enables our progress toward our existing church goal to become a multicultural, mulitracial, multigenerational spiritual community that is grounded in authentic relationships, trust, and belonging.

This includes:

Holding ourselves accountable to the living practice of our covenant of right relations.
Working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions
Creating meaningful experiences of belonging for all members of our community, whether they participate in person or virtually.
Engaging in collective learning on how to welcome and support leaders with marginalized identities.

Ensure our governance and operational framework enables us to achieve these two goals through shared ministry at a committee, staff, board, and congregational level.

This includes:

Building a shared understanding of committee, staff, board and congregational roles and responsibilities, so that we can more effectively work together in carrying out these goals.
Evaluating strengths and opportunities for improvement that would better enable us to meet our other Developmental Ministry goals, including our antiracism and anti-oppression commitments selected.