Terri Elton Sessions 1-4

Terri Elton (Luther Seminary)

Adaptive Leadership: Leading Change
Session 1
 
Being church in the 21st century requires leading adaptively. Adaptive leadership has its own posture.  It acknowledges that the church is in new territory, territory that is discontinuous from the past, therefore demanding discovery and new learnings in order to find our way forward. It means acquiring new skills and learn new ways of being church, as it also invites us to deconstruct some of our paradigm and unlearn habits. In this session, “Adaptive Leadership: Leading Change,” Terri Martinson Elton will introduce participants to core elements of adaptive leadership and help congregational leaders think about these ideas with an eye toward their own particular ministry setting.
 
Faith Formation in a Missional Age
Sessions 2-4
 
The world is changing rapidly. 1 out of every 5 adults in the USA claims to have no religious affiliation.
Our task of faith formation just got more difficult. The purpose of this year’s Practice Discipleship
Project is to explore the realities of faith formation in this missional age. This session will be an open
discussion on the challenges we all face when doing ministry in this era. What are the challenges we are
faced with? What is the opportunity? What are your fears and anxieties? What are your joys? We will
seek the collective wisdom of the group on ways we can faithfully move forward and continue to
support one another in our work.