Missio training happens in one five day (Monday-Friday) or as five quarterly weekends over fifteen months.
'Missional Development' is complementary to 'Congregational Development,' but with a focus and content that is quite different. Both are needed to help our congregations flourish in mission and ministry.
Mission Development provides:
1. Theological, ecclesiological and missiological foundations for developing local, outward focused, congregational mission. (We will explore: the nature of the Missio Dei and how approaches to engaging mission have shifted over the history of the church; What characteristics and giftings Anglicanism brings to engaging God's mission; and what history and giftings each congregation can bring for engaging God's mission in the local context).
2. Training for understanding and navigating 'Great Emergence' culture, and methods of contextualization. (Missio provides an overview of currents in North American culture today: the postmodern, the post Christian and the post secular. We will teach the components of culture, and learn a methodology for contextualizing all aspects of parish life, including liturgy and music, and ways of organizing the congregation for sustainable mission).
3. Approaches for welcoming the next generations (35 and under) into our parishes and realign our congregational demographics (where the average Anglican/Episcopalian member is 62) with the demongraphics of North America (where the average citizen age is 33).
4. A process for engaging congregational discernment for mission.
5. Ways for deepening our Anglican liturgical, sacramental and spiritual practices, as foundational for sustaining congregational mission.
Dioceses interested to sponsor Missio please contact us.