Program Overview

Program Aims:

To equip lay leaders and congregational clergy with the knowledge, skills and practices needed to develop their congregations into healthier and more faithful communities of faith and organizations.
To form healthy, sustainable congregations grounded in a robust identity that is rooted in an Anglican ethos and spirituality.
Leaders that are both self-defined and connected to their communities of faith. Leaders who are both aware of and responsive to the particular challenges and opportunities before them.
A common language and community of practice around congregational development in the Diocese. Stronger connections among congregational leaders for the purposes of learning, community, mutual encouragement, and inspiration.
The creation of useful training programs that can be shared freely and used by others in the broader Church.

Our Objectives Are:

Congregations throughout the Ecclesiastical Province of BC/Yukon that are grounded in Christian faith and practice within a living Anglican tradition
More vital, sustainable congregations capable of responding to cultural and community context and to the unique and changing opportunities and issues before them.
Congregational leaders who are grounded in their own Christian, Anglican tradition, have a wider range of ways to lead and intervene in the life of their congregations and are more skilled at leading and intervening.
The development of a common language and community of practice around congregational development. Stronger connections among congregational leaders across the Ecclesiastical Province of BC/Yukon for the purposes of learning, community, mutual encouragement and inspiration.