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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Tim enjoyed three days in Bendigo along with some very welcome rain at the Diocese of Melbourne Ministry Conference. He was asked to facilitate some discussion on changes in professional ministry. The Powerpoint Presentation from Tim’s session can be accessed.  A download will be activated later this week.

Information on Renewal Retreats for Clergy

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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Tim enjoyed spending Tuesday this week at the Clergy Conference for the Anglican Diocese of Canberra – Goulburn held at Bateman’s Bay. The three sessions covered an introduction to conflict management in Christian communities, some teaching resources on conflict styles and strategies which can be used at different levels of conflict.    Most of the files are available as pdf downloads, some as flash presentations.   Follow the links below  (more…)