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Equipping Ministry
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Is not a program. It is a way of doing and being the Church.
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Is the Church's effort to build systems and train leaders to
identify people’s gifts and ministry needs, connect them into
service according to their gifts, equip them, and recognize
their service.
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Prepares people to understand their gifts and live out their
calling in every area of their lives, with their family, in the
church, in their community or in the world.
Equipping Ministry Values
• Prayer
• Priesthood of all believers, all are gifted to serve
(Ephesians 4)
• Servant Leadership
• Team Building
• Intentionality
• Cultural change
How does Equipping Ministry serve Calvary’s Mission? We:
INVITE
To present a welcoming and warm atmosphere to all who enter our
church by sharing ourselves with them and affirming their
presence with us.
INSPIRE
To share through worship, prayer, the Word, sacraments, Bible
studies and small groups God’s love through our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ.
EQUIP
To receive persons into membership, pray for them, share the
gifts of compassion, assist them through a Discovery process to
identify their God-given gifts and to provide support and
training in the work of the church.
ENGAGE
To connect persons into ministry in a very intentional way that
makes them feel welcomed, informed and accepted.
We do this by using Equipping Ministry processes:
• Welcome
• Nurture
• Discovery
• Connection
• Affirmation
• Prayer
• Administration
• Systems
New Ministry at Calvary
Calvary’s
Nurture Ministry
This is a new ministry at Calvary within the Equipping Ministry
Team. Our focus is on nurturing folks within our congregation in
the following ways:
-- bringing meals to those recovering from surgery or illness or
suffering a loss
-- preparing and delivering occasional meals to shut-ins.
(Casseroles are being prepared & stored in the church freezer,
ready to take to a recipient..)
-- providing assistance in the area of transportation for those
who need help getting to worship, other Calvary events and to
medical appointments.
-- helping connect with each other via the “phone friends”
ministry. This ministry is being reactivated under the guidance
of Doris Anderson.
-- contacting those who have been absent from worship for a
while
-- helping with special needs around the home- for those needing
help to change smoke alarm batteries, installing safety bars,
etc.
If you would like to help with this ministry, contact
Suzanne Higgins.
Ministry
Directory
Take a look at this
directory
of the ministries at Calvary and the contact people. The
directory is in PDF format. If you would
like further information from any of the contact people, send us
an
email and we will respond to you promptly.
NURTURE: New Ministry at Calvary
We are pleased to announce a new area of focus
within the Equipping Ministry Team. It will focus on nurturing
folks within our congregation and will be designed to expand on
ministry already being done by the Calvary Care Connection.
We need your
help. We are collecting names of folks who would be willing to
support members in the nurturing process. Take a look at this
list of
services (ministries) we would like to provide. Please
print and complete this form and return it to the church
office.
DISCOVERY -- LET'S GET PERSONAL
Within the Equipping Ministry way of thinking and operating
is a very important process that YOU are invited to use for you.
It's personal. It is about discovering your gifts from God.
What is this process? It involves an interview by someone
on the Discovery Ministry Team and the working through of four
different, short inventories. The process takes a minimum of 1
1/2 hours, but it reveals to you the ways you have been gifted
to work, your natural bent. It also gives you information about
your personality style, your God-given spiritual gifts and helps
you to name your top values in life - things that you consider
whenever you make decisions. In the interview the team member
has a conversation which draws out more things about you that
you know, but perhaps didn't think about all in one
conversation. The interviewer is listening not only with the
head but with the heart; you have the full attention because
this is about you alone.
Why would you want this? The purpose is to help each
person know themselves more clearly in ways that each of us is
specially made and gifted by God. The purpose is for you to have
an opportunity to acknowledge these gifts, embrace them, and
intentionally use them in service to God.
What happens with this information? The paperwork you
generate from this is yours alone. The highlights of this we ask
to use in putting into the data base of Calvary Lutheran; this
is the Systems part of Equipping Ministry. It can be helpful for
us to know a bit about the members of Calvary and allows us to
be able to support you should you want to use your gifts in
ministry either within Calvary or in some other way. In fact,
that is one important part of this conversation.....how we can
support you in your life - not just at Calvary - but in your
life, using your gifts.
How may I serve? Take a look at our
Time &
Talent sheet.
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