2. What is there inside me today – my attitudes, my
behaviors, my use of language – that puts up
barriers and walls to others?
What is there in me that I have brought along that
speaks of my expectations and my demands and my
bottom line rather than hope and possibility and
promise?
Where have I set limits and boundaries to what I
believe we must do, that make it difficult for me to
hear anything new, especially from particular
people?
3. Mission Convocation Schedule
9:00Invocation and Bishop’s reflection
Mission Strategy Network Presentation
9:20Spiritual transformation
9:30Renewing congregations in their context
9:40Recreating the diocese as a network
9:50Developing effective stewardship of financial resources
Morning Session
10:00Prayer and hymn
10:15 Small group discussion and discernment
Plenary – report back and discuss
11:00
11:45 Prayer and hymn
12:00Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:00Prayer and hymn
1:15Bishop’s reflection
1:30Small group discussion and discernment
2:30Plenary – report back and discuss
3:15Closing prayer and hymn
4. Mission Convocation
Morning Schedule
9:00Invocation and Bishop’s reflection
Mission Strategy Network Presentation
9:20Spiritual transformation
9:30 Renewing congregations in their context
9:40 Recreating the diocese as a network
9:50 Developing effective stewardship of financial resources
Morning Session
10:00Prayer and hymn
10:15 Small group discussion and discernment
11:00 Plenary – report back and discuss
11:45 Prayer and hymn
12:00Lunch
5. As you listened to the presentation, read the MSN
Report, or engaged in your own discernment:
• Did you feel the Spirit leading you to notice anything in
particular that you’d like to mention today?
• What is most hopeful about what God is doing among us?
• What is most concerning about what God is doing among
us?
• What else would you like to add?
6. Mission Convocation
Afternoon Schedule
Afternoon Session
1:00 Prayer and hymn
Bishop’s reflection
1:15
1:30 Small group discussion and discernment
Plenary – report back and discussion
2:30
3:15 Closing prayer and hymn
7. • What common mission has shaped our diocese that
we need/want to hold on to?
• What can we imagine adding?
• What can we imagine leaving behind?
• What else would you like to add?
8. Thank you to everyone who made
Convocation possible:
Doug Baker, Breck School, Lydia Brown, Jacob Manier,
Rob Johnson, Rena Turnham, Sara McGinley
Facilitators: Ann Nerland, Cara Spaccarelli, Catherine Bergeron,
Coke Smith, Coleen Tully, Dan Vogel, Dana Strande, Elaine Barber,
George Hecock, Jan Dougherty, Jill Tollefson, Kate Hennessy, Letha
Wilson Barnard, Lowell Johnson, Lyn Vandesteeg
Note takers: Bill Van Oss, Mindy Boynton, Doug Sparks, Rex
McKee, Doug Maust, Jim Huber, MariannBudde, NeysaEllgren, Jymie
Anderson, Gary Aamodt, Marilyn Leach, Dick Guiton, Mary Phelps,
David Allen, Nancy Brantingham
9. Before you leave….
Please complete the evaluation form
and place in the baskets in the
registration area.
