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Governance
- Strengthens bonds between clergy and congregational leaders so that their ministry together is a FRESH START.
- Helps to honor the ministry of all leaders, lay and ordained, in the life of the congregation.
- Helps to establish a common language to talk about issues of transition.
- Creates an opportunity or venue where issues of transition can be talked about, either clergy to clergy or lay leaders with clergy.
- Increases participants’ capacity to minister to each other and the wider community.
- Creates trusting relationships that enable bishop, bishop staff and congregational leaders to engage in proactive conversations before issues become problems.
- Broadens the scope of a bishop’s teaching ministry in the diocese.
- Provides an opportunity for leaders, both lay and ordained, to experience each other’s openness to God and to deepen their capacity to be ministers of Jesus Christ.