Formational Goals Revised – 5/29/13

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Intentional Growth

Long-range goals

–          Fully engage in ongoing academic and post-academic missional developments and perspectives.

–          Plant a ministry in South Philadelphia.

 Short-range goals

–          Graduate with a Masters of Divinity.

–          Continue to learn what it means to be a church planter.

–          Begin working with the Cedar Hill church of Christ as a Pulpit/Missional Minister.

–          Continue to engage in conversations with the Cedar Hill church elder in discovering what is means to be a Pulpit/Missional Minister in Cedar Hill, Texas.

Pulpit/Missional Minister, thus far means to be a co-preacher and to lead the congregation in developing a Missional impulse.

Profiles of Ministry

Personal Characteristics: Examine your profile in these three areas. List and describe three strengths that your profile indicates you bring to ministry.

Responsible and Caring

    • My case study shows that I care about social issues.
    • My case study shows that I am concern about making healthy changes within churches.
    • My ethnography exercise shows that I am concern for the Cedar Hill church.

Personal Faith

    • My ministerial identity shows that I am appreciative of my heritage.
    • My pathways project shows that I am serious about my heritage.
    • My ConEd final paper shows that I am devoted to ministry.

Select an area of growth indicated by your profile. Be specific about how you plan to work on that area during the year. What resources are available to help you?

I need to work on the category of the family perspective. I am not sure what exactly does “family perspective” means. Therefore, I plan to figure out what is means to have a family perspective.

Special Concerns: Examine your profile in this area. Which characteristic concerns you most? Be both concrete and realistic about what you intend to do in this area this year.  What resources are available to you?

Perceptions of Ministry:  Examine your profile in these four areas. From these four areas, list three strengths that your profile revealed.

Ecclesial Ministry

    • My second pathways project gives a lot of attention to this category
    • My 1st pathways project gives attention to this category

Conversionist Ministry

    • N/A

Social Justice Ministry

    • My 1st pathways project gives attention to this category
    • My 2nd pathways project gives attention to this category

Community and Congregational Ministry

    • My 1st ethnography project gives attention to this category.
    • My 2nd ethnography project gives attention to this category.

Are there one or two characteristics you want to develop more fully this year? Be specific. What resources are available to help you? What is it that you plan to do?

I desire to sharpen my formational goals. I plan to talk to Dr. Childers concerning things that the reviewers are exactly looking for in regards to pathway reviewers.

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