We face new challenges every day as we seek to serve diverse and ever-changing communities. Grace in Action is always adding new “Tools to Serve Others” to equip your team for ministry in the 21st century.
Enhancing Your Visitor-Friendly Culture
Half-day Workshop, available onsite or online
The Issue: When we don’t have a broad visitor-friendly culture at our churches (one that goes beyond the Pastors and perhaps some key greeters), our congregation misses out on repeat worship visitors and further opportunities to share the Gospel.
The Answer: In this 4-hour workshop, your team will study a model of a customer-centric organization, discussing tactics used to welcome and engage visitors. Afterwards, you will design a visitor-friendly experience for your ministry and walk away with specific plans for implementation.
Results: Your team has an action plan to create a visitor-friendly culture, moving your ministry’s outreach and evangelism efforts forward.
Ministering Across the Generations
Three to Four-Hour Workshop, delivered onsite
The Issue: Your ministry team is actively sharing the Gospel with five different generations in its churches, schools, and organizations. Do you understand each generation, know how best to engage them in ministry, and have differentiated plans to meet their unique needs?
The Answer: In this 3 to 4-hour interactive workshop, your team will consider what makes each generation unique, learn about their needs, and discover how best to serve each group at your ministry.
The Result: Multiple generations active in serving the Lord, serving each other, and serving others!
Suggestion: This workshop makes for great in-service sessions for any ministry teams. It is also a great take-off point for the Growing Young and Visitor Friendly Culture workshops.
Growing Young
Two to Four-Hour Workshop, delivered onsite
The Issue: Many congregations struggle to retrain or engage youth in congregational ministry. Many myths exist when it comes to addressing these issues, leaving ministry teams confused.
The Answer: A recent Fuller Theological Seminary Youth Institute debunks these myths. This study reveals six key factors common to ministries with young people that are numerically growing, engaging a large number of youth, or have something “exciting” going on with young people (ages 15 to 29 years).
In this workshop, your team will learn these six key factors, evaluate your current youth ministry, and discover ways to both serve and engage young people.
Results: A plan and reliable tools to reach the youth of your congregation and community.
Suggestion: This could be a stand-alone workshop or be combined with Ministering Across the Generations and/or Enhancing Your Visitor-Friendly Culture.
The GROW Tool
Two-Hour Workshop, delivered onsite
The Issue: Teams struggle to make quick and accurate decisions.
The Answer: In this 2-hour workshop, GIA will help you team us the GROW tool to make better decisions more quickly as individuals and a team. The GROW tool will also help you with internal coaching of your team members.
Results: Better and quicker decisions by team members and the entire team.
Cultural Competency
Two and half to three hour workshop, available onsite
The Issue: Many churches and schools exist with a monocultural identity. While we know there will be all different types of people in heaven, that isn't always true in congregations. How do ministry leaders and teams work to share God's word with new cultures and understand the values and social norms of that group?
The Answer: Ministry leaders and teams will be challenged, will be equipped, will grow, and will build a strong foundation in their understanding of cultural competency as they carry out the Great Commission in their cultural setting.
Result: Your ministry leaders and team will do the following:
- Grow in their understanding of Cultural Competency
- Learn about different cultural groups and how to serve their spiritual needs
- Create evangelism and outreach goals and strategies to spiritually serve new cultural groups
- Build the capacity to serve in a culture setting that is unfamiliar to them