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2006 J. Parker Jameson A Community in Christ and Christ to the World: Imagining Adult Formation for St. Luke’s on the Lake Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas How adult Christian education can be used in the development of a small corporate-sized congregation is the main...
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2006 Eugenia M. Durham Anything You Can Dream, You Can Do A priest with training and experience in Christian education, pastoral care and the heart of a servant helped a small congregation in a rural community build a new worship space. Servant leadership and...
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2006 Robert A. Davenport What Do You Do After You’ve Dug the Well, Built the Rectory and the Bishop Needs a Land Rover? This paper is an attempt to show that two parishes from very different cultures within the Anglican Communion can be strengthened, individually and...
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2006 Jo Ann Barker A Place Prepared: A People Prepared As their new rector I led St. John’s Episcopal Church in Harrison, Arkansas into new life by simultaneously helping them to build a new sanctuary and leading them in building lay ministry. The parish lived...
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2005 David A. Stenner Spiritual Development of Leaders: A Key to Congregational Development Over the course of my ordained ministry I have been privileged to serve in two congregations who have made successful size transitions. St. Francis’ Episcopal Church, Fortuna,...
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2005 Gil Wade Stafford Understanding the Faith Stage of An Institution in Transition Do institutions exhibit stages of faith development much like individuals? And if so could leaders make strategic decisions based upon that understanding? This thesis is built upon...