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ACTION PLAN - SINODO CENTRO - CAMPANHA SUL - IECLB Introduction 1. Basis of our mission - The fascination and vision of hope that livens us up 2. Action proposals - Ways for our action Action 1 Participative planning in the community Action 2 Church Day - Lutheran meeting Action 3 Celebrating Pentecost Action 4 Planning our mission work in the campaign area Action 5 Public responsibility Action 6 Ecumenical responsibility Action 7 Leadership training Action 8 Volunteers training Action 9 Synodical teams Action 10 6th Synodical Assembly Action 11 Synodical team action Action 12 Offering plan Action 13 Northwest Synod partnership Action 14 Getting to know the church and the Synod Action 15 Challenges Introduction [ Top ] "God has a project of life for his children. Before the horizon of God's promises that were realized in the form of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the conscience that we are instruments of God for his service and testimony." We want to be a missionary church: The church and Christian people have a commitment with a project of life. Whoever has experienced the liberating grace of Christ is an agent of transformation, is someone that acts in favor of dignity, justice and peace. We want to be a participative church: The principle of "general calling of all believers" expresses the vital idea of participation of the communities and its members. Participation becomes the means of community that we look to experience in the power of the Holy Spirit. Our public ministries look to help the communities to achieve this mission. Our goal: Participation, Involvement and Training The actions of the churches in the area of the Center Synod-Campanha Sul will direct itself on the goal of building missionary and participative communities and it will develop initiatives that have in view the participation, the involvement, and training in the communities of its members and chosen leaders. In this action, the Synod will guide itself by the proposals that have come from the communities; it will pay attention to the realities and special challenges that the communities and parishes go through. With dialogue and actions, it will try to develop actions that aim the revival of the communities and the participation of the communities and its members.
ACTION 1 [ Top ] Participative Planning in the community Objective: Support the community and parishes in the goal of getting to know each other better and to undertake dynamic actions with regards to missions. Goals
ACTION 2 [ Top ] Church Day - Lutheran meeting Objective: To bring together in a meeting people such as community members, missionaries, team leaders and work groups to celebrate the Holy Communion, CONFRATERNIZAR and to be encouraged by the service and testimony of those who are present at the meeting Goals Meeting to take place on Church Day, August 26, 2001
ACTION 3 [ Top ] Celebrating Pentecost Objective: Celebrate Pentecost in the community Goals 1. Prepare aids for the celebration and motivate service and testimony
ACTION 4 [ Top ] Planning our mission work in the campaign area Objective: To prepare a missionary action plan for the campaign area, with regards to the situation of the communities, distances, characteristics of the communities and creation of future communities. Goals 1. Meeting for volunteers from the area, with the purpose to train them for local and regional mission work.
ACTION 5 [ Top ] Public responsibility -Faith challenge Objective: Support political leaders in their public task and in reflecting of the challenges that comes from faith and Christian ethics. Goals 1. June 9, 2001 Synodical meeting of evangelical political leaders"To gather community leaders in the rural area to discuss a proposal of respect for life and its conservation."
ACTION 6 [ Top ] Ecumenical responsibilities "The year 2000 brought us an intense ecumenical agenda, in the context of Fraternity Campaign. Growing relationships were shaken by doctrinal documents published by the sister church. The challenge to build communion and authentic ecumenical cooperation continues strong in our part, which we want to continue working on. Objective: Develop initiatives that encourage and consolidate relationships and ecumenical communion with our sister churches. Goals 1. Participate in regional meetings of the Ecumenical Forum
ACTION 7 [ Top ] Leadership training Objective: Support the community and parishes in the goal of getting to know each other better and to undertake dynamic actions with regards to missions.
Objective: Confront people with the basic contents of the Christian faith and help them discover or rediscover the reason for their lives.
Objective: To prepare volunteers to work with children
Objective: To prepare youth leaders tied to the work in progress with youth from the communities
Objective: To prepare working women and link them with women from the community
Objective: Motivate and integrate working couples with couples in the community
Objective: To prepare community leaders to work with senior citizens
Objective: To prepare community leaders in the area of liturgy and music
Objective: To prepare community leaders to work with disabled people
Objective: To prepare community leaders in the area of communication
Objective: To prepare community leaders to become visitors
Objective: To motivate and prepare rural leaders of our communities that want to participate in a proposal of family and ecological agriculture.
Objective: To promote the well being, material and spiritual, of the evangelical men. CONFRATERNIZACAO amongst legion brothers To develop spirituality between legion brothers
ACTION 8 [ Top ] Objective: To prepare volunteers to work building up the communities. Also to help the community live their spirituality and exercise creativity and participation in their special ministry.
ACTION 9 [ Top ] Objective: To speed up and implement missionary actions throughout the parishes and communities.
ACTION 10 [ Top ] Objectives: 1. To approve the goals and objectives of the church mission in their area 2. Maintain themselves informed about the Synod's activities and administration
ACTION 11 [ Top ] Objective: To gather members of the Synodical Council and management, so they can exercise their abilities Objective: To create the physical resources for the installation of Administrative Office and the Synodical Pastor's residence Goals: In 2001, start construction of the buildings that will house the Administrative Office and the Synodical Pastor's residence Objective: To gather with members of the Parish leadership groups to: share our hopes and our realities, to get know the Synod's action plan, to equip ourselves for our administrative and financial tasks. Goals: Meeting for Parish presidents, treasurers and secretaries Objective: To search for qualification for the practice of the tasks and functions performed at the Synodical management and council, as well as the Parish leadership groups Goals: To facilitate throughout the year several 2-hour meetings in the area of qualification for administrative staff Objective: To facilitate the registration of members of the communities To facilitate the administration of the parishes/communities ACTION 12 [ Top ] Offering Plan Objective: To aid several mission and specific groups during the year. 18 Sundays out of the calendar year, the offering is designated to groups such as:
Goals:
ACTION 13 [ Top ] "Northwest Synod of Wisconsin" The exchange between the Center Synod-Campanha do Sul and the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin in the United States has been solidified and deepened in various levels:
Beyond this brotherly relationship between Synods, some direct exchanges have been established directly with the community:
ACTION 14 [ Top ] Getting to know the church and the Synod Statistics Some statistics related to the IECLB: Number of Parishes 413 Total number of IECLB baptized: 713,502
ACTION 15 [ Top ] Challenges All the Synod's actions are initiatives that come from proposals and action plan from the Missionary Plan of the IECLB (PAMI) and are inspired by it and its objectives. Action 15 gathers impulses, initiatives, and goals that need our continued and new attention and participation. Mission:
The Synod's responds to these challenges with all its action plans. In order to evaluate if its goals are being met, they propose to:
Communication: As soon as we gather a Synodical Council of Communication, we propose the fulfillment of the following projects:
With the students: We would like to provide support to the students that are studying for the IECLB ministry and that come from the Synod's geographical area. We would like to do what we can, within our financial means, in cooperation with the communities, parishes and the students' families. We would like to help those in need within the communities/parishes [ Top ] |
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