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SUMMARY:ELCA Extravaganza 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Extravaganza is the annual gathering of children\, youth\, and family ministry leaders from across the ELCA. It is so much more than a conference: it’s space to be stretched\, it’s worship\, it’s inspiring speakers\, it’s learning from colleagues across the country\, it’s sharing your insights with others\, it’s informative and transformative. The Extravaganza is renewing\, educational\, and connects you with others…then sends you home strengthened for the ministry to which you have been called. \nThe Extravaganza is for the professional and the volunteer. It is for the old and the young. It is for the urban\, the suburban\, and the rural. It is for pastors\, it is for lay people. It is for all adult leaders who share in the adventure we call children\, youth\, and family ministry! \nLocation: Online \n\nFor 2021: \nThe scriptures are full of stories of God’s people holding loosely to their plans and learning to trust in the grace and the mission of God. \nAnd so\, as God’s people\, we are reminded that grace is a gift of God\, and trust follows grace. God calls on God’s people to trust in God’s abundance\, love and promise. Too often\, we try and maintain our own sense of control. But if ministry in 2020 has taught us anything\, it has taught us that we are not in control. The world is a broken\, turbulent place and we cannot navigate these troubled waters by ourselves. \nAnd so\, obediently\, we trust in the work of the Holy Spirit in the midst of turbulent times. And we partner with God\, serving as God’s hands doing God’s work in a world that is in need of hope. \nWe hold loosely\, letting go of our need to control\, creating space for the Spirit to work\, and trusting in God\, who has a vision for the world. \nExtravaganza 2021 will explore God’s call to hold loosely to our own plans\, and our need to control\, and to trust in the one who comes to create\, to redeem and to sustain. God’s call for us to “Hold Loosely” and trust is more important now than ever\, as we live and do ministry in a time of pandemic\, of racial injustice and unrest\, of social division and political turmoil. \nOur conversations at #ext21 will center around five questions: \n\n\nHow do we help those we work with navigate the grief of losing “normal?” How do we navigate that same grief for ourselves?\nHow do we care for ourselves in the midst of accompanying others in their pain?\nHow do we navigate change?\nWhat should we do next?\nHow do we find hope in the midst of chaos?\n\n\nIt is in the words of Ephesians 2:8 that we are reminded that we place our trust in God’s grace\, which provides guidance and direction during these hard days. And that this grace is a gift that we discover when we hold loosely. \n“For by grace you have been saved through faith\, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” – Ephesians 2:8
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/elca-extravaganza-2021/
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SUMMARY:Synod Council and Deans Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be held online. \nSketch and Outline of Presentation to  \nNTNL Synod Council and Deans  \nLeading into God’s Future Together  \nFebruary 5\, 2021\, 1-4pm \nObjective and Purpose \nProvide tools and resources to help pastoral and synodical leaders initiate conversations in congregations regarding their futures in light of the changing realities that have been brought on by Covid-19 and other circumstances and situations. \nStructure  \nBasic structure will be three one-hour sessions\, each lasting about 50 minutes with a ten-minute break between each session. \nSession 1 – Basic Introductions and Defining our Problem  \n\nBishop welcome and sharing learnings thus far.\nDefining our problem\, where are we “stuck?”\n\nWhat challenges and struggles are congregations/pastors and lay leaders/synodical leaders encountering in the present moment? Where do you see us stuck?\n\n\n\nSession 2 – Helpful theoretical resources that speak to our present moment  \n\nSystems theory\n\nWho is responsible\, reframing\, what is goal?\nWhat leads to “stuckness?”\nLeading through resistance.\nDistinction between empathy and sympathy.\n\n\nNarrative theory and future story\n\nWe all\, individuals and congregations\, have a narrative.\nIntroduce idea of a future story.\nFunctional vs. dysfunctional stories\n\n\nGrounding in reality\, so we can make clear and realistic decisions about how to live into the future\, even if that future is unknown.\n\nSession 3 – Practical Application: Leading into the new\, being prophetic and pastoral  \n\nInteractive exercises and sharing. Relating to real life situations.\nBuilding resilience and ability to lead through resistance and into change.\n\nResources to be Applied  \nAndy Lester’s book\, Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling (concept of Future Story)  \nEd Friedmann: Failure of Nerve\, and Friedman’s Fables; Wayne Menking: When All Else Fails; Rethinking our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck. (Systems theory\, change and resistance) 
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-council-and-deans-meeting-feb-2021/
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