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Module
Name

OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS
Module Description

Module Objectives/Outcomes

Module
Name

For the
Love of Our
Neighbors:
Creating
Connections
with Our
Community

For the Love of Our
Neighbors explores
options for determining
the best means of creating
connections and building
relationships with the
people of the community,
especially those who
are unchurched or
dechurched. It includes
an overview of models
for surveying, canvassing,
social ministry, etc.,
and walks through a
process of determining
which models are most
appropriate for the
congregation’s setting.

•	An understanding of the
relationship between
Creating Connections/
Building Relationships and
Making Disciples
•	Analyzing current outreach
activities to determine their
nature and effectiveness
•	Identifying at least one
outreach activity (current or
new) to implement using the
Connect to Disciple model
for outreach

Gracious
Hosts:
Welcoming
and
Responding
to Guests

Gracious Hosts goes
beyond training selected
people for welcoming
visitors (e.g., ushers and
greeters) to creating an
atmosphere in which the
entire congregation takes
an active role of receiving
and responding to visitors
as their guests.

•	An awareness of how people
outside of the congregation
perceive the congregation
when visiting
•	A visitor experience
enhancement plan for
facilities and grounds
•	A plan for guiding every
member to developing
a more welcoming
environment for visitors

Revealed to
Children:
Reaching
Families
through
Children’s
Ministry

Revealed to Children
guides participants
through the Connect to
Disciple outreach model
and then provides a
process of evaluating how
children’s ministries such
as Sunday School and
VBS are being used in all
three phases of outreach
and how they can be
used more effectively to
reach the families of the
children being served.

•	An understanding of the
relationship between
Creating Connections/
Building Relationships and
Making Disciples
•	An assessment of the barriers
and gaps in how children’s
ministries currently move
people through the Connect
to Disciple Outreach Funnel
•	A plan for addressing the
barriers and gaps that are
limiting disciple making

Beyond the
Classroom:
Outreach
through
Lutheran
Education

Beyond the Classroom
examines the importance
of integrating the
ministry that occurs
in the classroom with
the overall Word and
Sacrament ministry
of the congregation—
and vice versa. Using
the Connect to Disciple
outreach model, Beyond
the Classroom provides a
framework for evaluating
current practices and
for charting a course for
a more fully integrated
ministry that enhances
the mission focus of an
educational ministry.

•	An understanding of the
relationship between
Creating Connections/
Building Relationships and
Making Disciples
•	An assessment of the barriers
and gaps in how educational
ministries currently move
people through the Connect
to Disciple Outreach Funnel
•	A plan for addressing the
barriers and gaps that are
limiting disciple making

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Module Description

Module Objectives/Outcomes

One Flock,
Many Sheep:
Holistic
Group
Ministry

One Flock, Many
Sheep explores the
roles, dynamics, and
impact of groups
within a congregation
and how those groups
can be used for more
effective outreach and
assimilation. Moving
beyond traditional small
groups, One Flock, Many
Sheep considers all of the
types of congregational
groups including those
that are not typically
considered ministry
groups.

•	A catalog of all of the
congregations’ groups, what
they do, and how they fit into
the congregation’s mission
•	A plan for integrating
existing groups into the
congregation’s mission and
for adding new groups to
meet unmet ministry needs

As Iron
Sharpens
Iron:
Growing
through
Conflict

As Iron Sharpens Iron
approaches the inevitable
conflict that surfaces
in a congregation as
an opportunity for
strengthening the
congregation and its
understanding of mission
rather than as a problem
to be solved. It lays the
groundwork for directly
addressing the conflict by
exploring the underlying
causes of conflict
and works toward
reconciliation leading
to a renewed sense of
having a shared mission
in Christ.

•	A process for engaging and
effectively resolving conflict
•	An awareness that conflict
can be healthful for a
congregation and helpful
in fostering new ideas for
mission and ministry
•	A productive resolution
(including repentance and
reconciliation) of issues
resulting from any conflict(s)
that may have triggered the
training module