If you are in a small congregation and are wondering about your future, this workshop is for you! Our focus for the day will be:

• To assist congregations in identifying the cultural changes and demographic realities of their communities
• Through Bible study and discernment discover the missional practices of the New Testament Church
• Connect these missional practices to new realities facing small churches today; and
• Begin to build a congregational action plan and networking opportunities for addressing these new realities.
  

Workshop Presenters:

Rev. David King, Presbyterian Church (USA), has over 30 years experience in ordained ministry as a bi-vocational pastor, has served yoked congregations, has served as a church educator for a UMC church, initiated Presbyterian-Lutheran dialog, shared worship experiences and mission pro-jects. He is a graduate of Dubuque Theological Seminary, a trained mediator and has served 15 years on the Committee on Ministry for the John Knox Presbytery.

Rev. Linda Kuhn offers insights and experience from 26 years as an interim minister with over twenty Presbyterian and UCC congregations in Wisconsin during times of transition and distress. She is a past moderator of the Association of Presbyterian Tentmakers which holds joint confer-ences with Episcopalian bi-vocational colleagues. She is a graduate of Drew Theological Semi-nary and trained through the Association of Presbyterian Interim Ministry Specialists. She and David live in Juneau County and operate Sand Bur Consulting.

Scott Anderson, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, recently completed a sabbatical focused on revi-talizing congregations. He is a graduate of University of California, California State, Sacramento, and Princeton Theological Seminary.

Participants can request documentation of workshop attendance for continuing education purposes by signing up during the event. Registrants providing an email address receive registration confirmation and event location information by email prior to the event. Please share this information with others if you made a group registration.

Sponsored by: Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac; La Crosse Synod, ELCA; Chippewa/Heartland Region, United Methodist Church; Northwest Association, United Church of Christ; Presbytery of John Knox; and the Wisconsin Council of Churches.