Faith Communities

Tracking the Spirit

The Mission of the Project

This is the HOME page for the Faith Communities Project!  Feel free to browse the site OR if you are one of our training team members or other people involved in the project (or you are simply curious), check out the other resources!

We are joining the mission of God!  We seek to build as many missional/faith communities of disciples as the Holy Spirit leads us to build!  Each community would be committed to the disciple-making process, the value of reproduction, as well as provide a relational basis for spiritual development. 


Our mission is to build a movement of disciples who disciple...those who evangelize the lost and unchurched, participate with Holy Spirit in the transformation process in people’s lives, teach all to faithfully respond to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and to build up people of faith so that each is exercising their giftedness in the context of loving, supportive, and challenging community.


The Kingdom of God is much greater than any one church.  Christ-followers are called to be more committed to seeing the Kingdom extended than they are about individual church growth. Instead of being the biggest church in the area, the desire of this proposal is to church the area. All healthy organisms reproduce. It is in their DNA to look beyond themselves to the next generation or the species dies. Healthy churches strive for multiplication on every level — disciples and churches. As Jesus Himself stated, “Make disciples to the ends of the earth.” (Matthew 28:19-20)


Living outside the Jar!

This Project is about...

a missional project of Friendship Celebration Lutheran Church and the Northwest District of the LC-MS 2010

Supporting the Project


The congregation of FCLC is supporting this project in prayer and in sacrificial financial giving.  If the Spirit is leading you to give to this project (above your normal giving to the congregation), contact the FCLC Church Office or the Project’s Director, Robin Dugall (rdugall@apu.edu). We will quickly get a pledge form to you!  Our gifts along with a $25,000 grant from the Northwest District of the LC-MS and a $50,000 Grant from the LC-MS forms the financial undergirding for the project for the coming months.

        Project Update (effective March 2010)


  1. ✴Next Training Team began Sunday Morning, February 28th @ 9:30am to 10:45am @ FCLC - Next Session is Sunday, March 14th - then again on the 21st, 28th!  No Training Session on Easter! 

  2. ✴Next Project Celebration/Gathering in March 23rd...worship singing, sharing, storytelling, prayer, vision casting...

  3. ✴Complete Third Edition of the Faith Communities Project “Handbook” - CLICK HERE (Project Handbook) to download your own copy!

  4. ✴Handout on Storytelling and the Faith - CLICK HERE (click on Storytelling.doc

  5. ✴Handout on “Contextualization” - a big word for a new way of “doing Church” - good reading - CLICK HERE (then click on downloading the Contextualization handout)

  6. ✴Handout on the Relational Context of the Gospel - session 2 of the Training Track - CLICK HERE (then download Training Session 2)

  7. ✴Handouts on the Missional Movement and the Two Al’s (and Alice’s) - Institution-Al and Mission-Al.  CLICK HERE (then click on downloading the two word docs).

  8. ✴Handout on the Lordship of Jesus - CLICK HERE (then click on downloading the word doc).

  9. ✴Video on Change and Adaptivity - CLICK HERE

  10. ✴Handout on Organic Systems and Missional Ministry - CLICK HERE

  11. ✴Handout on Discipleship and Paradigms for Disciple’s Lifestyle - CLICK HERE

  12. ✴Handout on Stages of Faith - James Fowler’s provocative challenge to growth - CLICK HERE

  13. ✴Handout on the Faith Communities Project Covenant of Missional Lifestyle - CLICK HERE TO Check out the second draft of an “evolving” document.

 

2010 Strategy/Objectives


Faith Communities Project –  2010

Project work in coming months:


1 – Weekly follow up on Training Team members – support and mentoring

2 – Follow up materials developed for the past/future Training Team members

3 – Training Teams to be taught on Sunday morning (beginning 2.28), Business week morning (target date 3.15).

5 – Nurture Group visits to begin in March – purpose is to share Project vision with Groups as a means to encourage and infuse passion for outreach.

6 – Nurture Group materials that are Project related to be developed.

7 – Announcements in the bulletin/newsletter regarding the Project to be done in timely and consistent manner

8 – Planning and facilitation of the next Project Gatherings for March, May 2010 with Brit and Dan Collingwood

9 – Project Oversight/Leadership team meetings to begin in March 2010.

10 – District work to be performed in cooperation with the Tracking the Spirit pastoral learning communities/groups and consistent with TTS objectives

11 – Youth ministry Project plan – teaching/encouragement in partnership with the FCLC DCE Zach Davis

12 – Project plan for stewardship drive within FCLC in conjunction with the Leadership/Oversight team


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Terminology of a Movement - Imbedded, Indigenous, Incarnational, Movement, Missional, Transformational, Organic, Relational, Story, Process orientation, Collaborative, Serving vs. Bringing, Out there vs. In here, Subversive, Dangerous, Authentic, Integrity, Grace-filled