Congregations today face a multitude of challenges in trying to
adapt to a quickly changing world. Balancing new concerns with core
values is a complicated process that can leave too many members
feeling that their voices and needs are not being met. Loren B.
Mead and Billie T. Alban have developed Creating the Future
Together to share their knowledge of how congregations can use
large group methods to navigate these new waters. Large group
methods involve getting all the stakeholders together to work on
major issues of common concern. Mead and Alban outline four such
methods--two for identifying a preferred future and two designed to
create community and discover common interest. This book is not
meant to be a how-to volume; its primary purpose is to familiarize
leaders with these whole-system approaches and to provide a
conceptual framework for evaluating their potential usefulness
against any given challenge. The authors also share stories from a
variety of Christian and Jewish faith communities where ordinary
religious leaders, lay and clergy together, have faced issues
related to change using large group methods. Combining their wealth
of experience in leading religious and secular bodies through times
of change, Mead and Alban bring hope to faith communities as they
work to embrace, and even thrive through, the need for change.
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