Vision Casting
Last Friday I attended the ADVANCE simulcast. It was a wonderful way to spend a day, being encouraged, inspired and nudged to grow in influence.
I was particularly excited by Andy Stanley's session on Making Vision Stick. I felt energized when the session was over, my mind swirling and racing in all kinds of different directions (a fairly normal state for my mind to be in).
Andy Stanley writes, "Vision casting will always include an element of waking people out of their apathy. Vision casters rarely bring new information to the table. What they bring is an impassioned concern about an existing problem. They bring fresh eyes." I love this!
I view myself as a vision caster. I hope I am a vision caster. I love to think in creative and out of the box ways to bring fresh eyes to problems or questions. I am particularly excited to serve as the Outreach and Missions Director at my home church, Community Mennonite Fellowship, in Milton, PA where I hope to be able to do just that; bring fresh eyes to how to help abate hopelessness in our community. Our church will be participating in the Faith in Action Campaign in September, an all church initiative meant to bring the church out into the community as servants. I am excited about the possibilities this will open for forging and growing relationships and sharing the love of Christ with others; others who know Hm, who think they know Him and who don't know Him.
Tonight a group of us are meeting at the church to brainstorm ways to engage in creative outreach. May we all be vision casters.
I was particularly excited by Andy Stanley's session on Making Vision Stick. I felt energized when the session was over, my mind swirling and racing in all kinds of different directions (a fairly normal state for my mind to be in).
Andy Stanley writes, "Vision casting will always include an element of waking people out of their apathy. Vision casters rarely bring new information to the table. What they bring is an impassioned concern about an existing problem. They bring fresh eyes." I love this!
I view myself as a vision caster. I hope I am a vision caster. I love to think in creative and out of the box ways to bring fresh eyes to problems or questions. I am particularly excited to serve as the Outreach and Missions Director at my home church, Community Mennonite Fellowship, in Milton, PA where I hope to be able to do just that; bring fresh eyes to how to help abate hopelessness in our community. Our church will be participating in the Faith in Action Campaign in September, an all church initiative meant to bring the church out into the community as servants. I am excited about the possibilities this will open for forging and growing relationships and sharing the love of Christ with others; others who know Hm, who think they know Him and who don't know Him.
Tonight a group of us are meeting at the church to brainstorm ways to engage in creative outreach. May we all be vision casters.
posted by www.kathypride.com at
4:44 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Kathy,
Great to see you blogging again! I missed your "voice." Good for you...I'm a vision caster too. Not everyone gets it, but we get them excited enough that they can't help but catch the vision.
HUGS!
Connie
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