Paths to Growth is a print/video educational tool that seeks to help congregations and professional church workers agree on the kind of growth for workers that will also nurture the larger church community.
The Commission of Ministerial Growth and Support invites both professional church workers and laity to a mutual use of Paths to Growth, a resource designed to help congregations and workers plan together the kind of learning for professional church workers that contributes to the growth of all.
This program provides an opportunity for workers and laity to discuss their needs in a mutual way by employing a print/video technique. Participants will visit with professional church workers and laity who have growth needs and challenges very much like their own, and they will be invited to propose solutions to the problems of people in the video - as well as to their own kinds of problems. The process will build up participants as God's own people just as it leads them to plan together the kind of growth that will meet their needs. It has as its goal the matter of helping participants to say "we" rather than "I" when it comes to facing the challenges in today's church and world.
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