John Mark Ministries

Team A for the Churches of Christ Vic Tas Conference met on Tuesday for Workshop 10 in our Consultancy Training. Team B followed up on Wednesday with their Workshop 2 facilitated by Robyn, Mark and Peter as trainers. Both groups have access to the current google groups site linked below. A new collective site will be coming online in the next couple of weeks. Team A returned to some advanced skills in Proactive Consulting. In Team B we are still laying down some foundational processes in the standard consultancy process.

Church Consultancy Training CCCVT

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The Victorian / Tasmanian Churches of Christ Consultancy team met for training on Tuesday 24th November in Melbourne.   The training day covered process reports on 6 current consultancies and looked at conflict situations involving pastors and congregations.    Notes for the training are on our google groups site.

Congregational Consulting and Church Health Coaching

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The Sydney Diocesan Parish Recovery Team met in Sydney on Wednesday for our second training day of this year.  The training covered facilitation processes, risk assessment and guidelines for reintegrating individuals into parish life.  Notes from these sessions are on our restricted group site.

Parish Recovery

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The task of conducting a thoughtful and well facilitated review of a minister is often one tinged with anxiety not only for the minister and his/her spouse but also for the reviewers and the congregation.  This is usually due to the many stories doing the rounds of poor processes, ministers and congregations getting badly hurt, issues not being dealt with and pastors resigning or being dismissed rather than being empowered to grow in leadership.   Over the years, John Mark Ministries has worked with churches as they have reviewed their pastors and out of this experience has developed some tools and resources to assist.    (more…)

Training on Wednesday 5 November included exploring a model of church health and reflecting on how the processes of restoration operate.  As a team we also worked through aspects of teaching that occur in recovery consultancies, especially explaining the nature of clergy abuse, the dynamics of power and the reasons why we use terms like ‘offender’, ‘abuse’ and ‘victim’.  Notes from our session are on the Restoring Congregational Health Resource Site.