St. Johns Lenten Program

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:09:35 -0000

Forty Days of 4T Days
A Lenten Program for Congregational Vitality
All Are Welcome

This program will introduce important issues in congregational vitality.
The 4T program is based upon the principles of storytelling: Tradition, Transition,
Transformation and Transmission.
Its goal is to empower our congregation to effectively explore and share our story in our
community where they live, move and have their being.

The program is five one hour long meetings.

Lenten Program will start 2/26/12 following Sunday Service
St. John's Episcopal in The Wilderness Episcopal Church

The Frensdorff School of Christian Formation will roll out a new five week Lenten study for congregations this
month, Forty Day of 4T Days. 4T Days seeks to be an introduction to a process of “parish soul searching” and is
based upon the principles of storytelling. This five week curriculum has been written by Chuck McCray, Canon
for Adult Formation and reviewed by the office of congregational vitality in the Episcopal Church Center and
others from across the Episcopal Church.

The beginning of the 21st century is an exciting and challenging time to be a Christian, exciting in that we may
explore new frontiers in spiritual life beyond the boundaries of our formal religious affiliations, challenging in
that we may no longer rely upon cultural endorsements of our religious institutions.
The exciting and the challenging all involve changes. We encounter these changes both as individuals and as
congregations. Each of us individually, because of our up-bringing, background, personality and lifeexperience
handles changes differently. The same is true of our congregation. Every congregation is different.
Every congregation will meet the changes of the 21st century differently.

The 4T Days Lenten program, is a way to approach the excitement and challenges of the changes in the world
around us, as persons beloved of God and as congregations called of God.
4T Days will introduce our congregations to four tools or ministries that will help us engage the excitement
and challenges of change.

The 4Ts at a glance:
Tradition, The Ministry of Community: How have we answered God’s call?
Transition, The Ministry of Discernment: Where has God called us to be?
Transformation, The Ministry of Change: How shall we live into our vision?
Transmission, The Ministry of Witness: What has God gifted us to share?

Each week we shall learn how each of the 4Ts can empower us as Christians in the 21st century.
The 4T Days program is based upon the principles of storytelling, with a few minor adjustments. Stories draw
upon traditions. Stories delineate transitions. Stories dramatize transformations. And, as stories are
meaningful, they deserve transmission. Almost every story contains these elements.
Our personal stories, the stories of others, the story of our congregation and the story of our community all
have these elements within them. The 4T Days program is an invitation to look at the elements of story in our
congregations and the community around us. The 4T Days program offers a way to begin a kind of “parish
soul searching” through questions in the frame work of story:

what Traditions do we share as a congregation?
what Transitions is the community around us is experiencing?
what Transformations we might engage in as a community of faith in order to better minister to the
community around us?
what Transmission is needed to share our message as a people of faith and witness?

The approximate length of each session is one hour and is ideally designed to be used in the five weeks
between Ash Wednesday and Holy Week.

For more information and schedule regarding 4T Days and see bulletin insert and parish announcements.

Diocesan Convention 2010 - report

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:30:00 -0000

2010 Diocese of Nevada Convention - Formation For Christian Living
October 22-24, 2010 - Thoughts and comments.

Presiding Bishop's Address on Immigration Reform

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0000

Presiding Bishop's Address on Immigration Reform
Brookings Institute, Washington DC by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori - 6/15/2010

E=mc2 - Evangelism Workshop

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:20:00 -0000

Introduction: For the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada 39th Annual Convention, Bishop Dan Edwards chose the theme of “I Love To Tell The Story” for Evangelism. I presented the committee with E=mc2 information and songs. The bishop asked me to teach the E=mc2 workshop and approved it for the convention date of October 24, 2009 at Lake Tahoe.

St. Johns's Episcopal Church Glenbrook, NV

St. Johns Lenten Program

Diocesan Convention 2010 - report

Presiding Bishop's Address on Immigration Reform

E=mc2 - Evangelism Workshop