What’s your vision for Country Club Christian Church? During Lent, you have a unique opportunity to share your voice in the vision for the future of Country Club Christian Church through Sacred Conversations.
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Q: What are Sacred Conversations, and how does this relate to the church’s visioning process?
For nearly two years, the Visioning Team, a group including members of the congregation and Dr. R. Glen Miles, has bee working to create a collaborative process that allows all members of the congregation to share their voiced in the vision for the church’s future. This process is called Sacred Conversations. Sacred Conversations are small groups of individuals who come together, led by a trained facilitator, to discuss who God calls us to be as a church and what it means to be church.
Q: How do Sacred Conversations work?
Share your voice in the church’s vision by simply choosing a group which fits your schedule. The groups will meet weekly during Lent as part of the church’s spiritual journey to Easter. (In recognition of the sacred nature of the Lenten season, the church will focus all of its energy on worship, study and fellowship between Feb. 15 and April 2, forgoing all business-related meetings, giving members a break from council and committee meetings so you may instead participate in either this opportunity or one of the other Lenten spiritual offerings.)
Your Sacred Conversation group will begin meeting the week of Feb. 15 with your facilitators who will open each week’s discussion with a sacred reading of scripture. Your facilitators will then lead you through a series of evocative questions about spiritual vitality and discipleship. Each person in your group will be invited to share observations, experiences and thoughts.
Q: What happens next?
In your group’s final session, your facilitator will share and confirm what has been learned through your group’s discussions, and these findings will be shared with staff, the congregational board and the Visioning Team to shape the future of our church.
Q: Why should I participate?
Participating in Sacred Conversations gives you an opportunity to help shape the future of Country Club Christian Church for generations to come. But an equally important benefit of this process is an opportunity to participate in what others have found as a spiritually invigorating and personally fulfilling process.
Groups meet Feb. 15 through April 2.
