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Rev. Hope Ledbetter Bock, Assitant Director for New Faith Communities and Clergy Life Butterfly Moments For our May Common Learning Day, we partnered with the Center for Leadership Excellence who hosted a visioning workshop led by Dr. Margaret Brunson. During this workshop, she used the journey of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly as an analogy…
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Rev. Tim Catlett, Director of the Office of New Faith Communities An Expansive Table, Set Together One of the most enduring images of God’s work among us is the table. Again and again, Scripture reminds us that God’s table is wider than we expect. “They will come from east and west, from north and south,…
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Rev. Hope Ledbetter-Bock, Associate Director, Office of New Faith Communities and Clergy Life The Power of a Church’s Origin Story If someone asked you about your church’s origin story, what would you say? How did your church come into being? Was it an answer to prayer, an educated guess, the result of a dynamic visionary,…
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Eight years ago this August, a handful of faithful dreamers gathered for the very first time to pray about what would become The Local Church. We met at Krista and John’s house. Peggy and Paul brought casseroles. I brought a loaf of Hawaiian bread, some grape juice, and a bottle of wine called Educated Guess—because…
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Are you engaging in a Fresh Expression of church? If so, we want to know! In late 2024, we hosted a gathering with FX United Methodist leader Michael Beck. Over 150 clergy and laity came to get a taste of Fresh Expressions and to begin imagining how one could blossom in their context.
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In 2024, New Faith Communities (NFC) embarked on a significant initiative in partnership with the Office of Clergy Life: Empower and Inspire. This innovative program provides comprehensive support to a diverse cohort of newly appointed pastors across various stages of their ministry journeys. Pastors convened monthly at the Church at Spring Forest in Hillsborough with Rev.…
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