Innovation & New Ministry Development

What is Innovation?

What Is Innovation?

Innovation is the nature of God. From the beginning of time, God has been creating- again and again and again. The work of innovation, in our diverse contexts, is to be inspired by the Holy Spirit to join in the creative work of God to invent, redesign, take risks, be open to failure, re-imagine, and work toward a future of abundance and new life.

What Is New Ministry Development?

What Is New Ministry Development?

New Ministry Development is the work of listening, learning, discerning, trying, adjusting, going back to the drawing board, and, sometimes, taking big risks! It can look like taking a new approach to an existing program, it can look like imagining a new way forward for your congregation or community, it can look like stepping out and creating new partnerships, and it can look like entering into the hard work of revitalization or even imagining what a beloved place can look like if ministry and mission are coming to an end. New Ministry Development is to engage in the truth that Christ came to offer new life, and claims us all in the power of the Resurrection.

YOU SHOULD BE HERE IF...

YOU WANT TO

START SOMETHING NEW

YOU ARE A CHURCH LEADER

TRYING TO INNOVATE

YOU DON'T KNOW

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

WHAT IF

YOU DON'T LIKE CHANGE?

WHAT IF

YOU'RE NOT PRESBYTERIAN?

INNOVATION RESOURCES

Pepa Paniagua, Coordinator of Innovation and New Ministry, recommends the following:

BOOKS

ISAIAH 43:19

Look! I’m doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it? I’m making a way in the desert, paths in the wilderness.

VISION, IMPLEMENTATION, & SUPPORT WITH IMAGINATION, INNOVATION, & HOPE

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