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Building Community to Reach Communities
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod World Mission, through its National Missions Staff, has commissioned TCN to develop a process designed to assist local congregations in becoming more effective in reaching their communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Based on research among effective mission movements world wide, and pilot projects field testing materials over the past five years, the Transforming Churches Process includes three components and a number of ancillary resources.
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Groups Ablaze! is an important TCN Resource
Groups Ablaze! is a system of 6 six-week study modules designed to assist small groups within a parish to reach out to their unchurched neighbors with the Gospel. It is a major resource for congregations in the Transformation process, as reaching out to unchurched people lies at the core of this process. Details of these modules can be found on our web site: www.GroupsAblaze.org.
It is strongly suggested that congregations that have scheduled a consultation weekend in the TCN Process would prepare by forming one or more small groups to go through the first of these six-week modules, Motivation for Mission. To introduce this module, there is a power-point presentation which can be downloaded by clicking on this link:
Groups Ablaze! Motivation for Mission Powerpoint
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Share information, best practices, prayer needs and more with pastors and leaders of congregations involved in the TCN process. Forums, groups, threaded discussions.
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| TCN' at the LCMS Convention
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  Dr. Terry Tieman, Executive Director of Transforming Churches Network participated at the LCMS Convention in honoring two churches which have done outstanding work in revitalizing their mission to their respective communities using the TCN process, and in giving a devotion. Click on the videos below to see these presentations.
VIDEO: You've Got to Get Out of the Boat
Rev. Dr. Terry Tieman delivers the devotion at the 64th Annual LCMS National Convention on Monday, July 12, 2010.
VIDEO: LCMS: One People in Mission
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TCN Conferences in 2011
Thank you to all of those who responded to our survey. Based on the information we received, we will be planning a number of regional events. Watch this panel of the web site for the announcement of future events.
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| Core Competency Assessment Available
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TCN Core Competencies Assessment:
Survey and Report
Building Community to Reach Communities
TCN is excited to announce the opportunity for pastors/churches in the TCN process to participate in the Core Competencies (CC) Assessment. Through participating in this assessment, you will receive insightful feedback on how your congregants score you and your church on the 8 Core Competencies, which have been confirmed statistically to impact your effectiveness in outreach to the community.
Information is power, and our goal is to empower you and your congregation to reach your community with the Gospel. The Core Competencies Assessment will help you understand your strengths and how to capitalize on them, while learning how to build up the areas where improvement is needed.
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President Gerald Kieschnick introduced Terry Tieman, Executive Director of Transforming Churches Network, whom recognized two churches who have been richly blessed in their ministry and missions.
"While Rev. Tieman is with us today, we will proceed with one of a few special presentations at this convention. As was broadly publicized last year, three emphases for the Synod were developed through a collegial and collaborative process involving the Synod's Senior Leadership Forum (which includes the executive directors and presidents of the boards, commissions, departments, and Synod-wide corporate entities), the Council of Presidents, and Synod's Board of Directors. These three mission and ministry emphases have served as "critical targets" guiding the work of the national church boards, commissions, departments, and Synod-wide corporate entities leading up to the time of this national Synod convention. These emphases were:
1. Revitalizing existing LCMS congregations;
2. Planting new mission congregations; and
3. Enhanced focus on stewardship of time, talent, and treasure.
At this convention, we will recognize some of the congregations from the Synod whom the Lord has extraordinarily blessed through mission and ministry that have been identified as being exemplary in each of these critical target areas.
Watch the video here.
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APPLETON, Wis. (April 27, 2010) – Transforming Churches Network (TCN), 1160 Vickery Lane, Suite 1, Cordova, TN, recently received a $75,000 grant from the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation. The grant will help TCN assist congregations revitalize their mission focus.
“Transforming Churches Network is very grateful for this generous grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation. It allows us to continue to reach the lost people so that they may come to know Christ as their Savior, which is our goal,” said Rev. Dr. Terry Tieman, Executive Director of Transforming Churches Network.
“We are delighted to assist Transforming Churches Network through this grant, said Tim Schwan, Vice President of the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation. “We trust that this support will strengthen Transforming Churches Network’s revitalization efforts to those it serves.”
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This year, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, celebrated Easter by hosting an Easter dinner for their community.
click here for video
Pastor Mark Schoenherr’s hope was to feed people physically and spiritually. “Hopefully through this weekend, we can find and reach those who are looking for a relationship with their Savior, Jesus Christ.”
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View pictures from February's seminar in Omaha, Nebraska. Credits and comments are appreciated.
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HELP US ASSESS THE TCN PROCESS
Measuring progress is important to each congregation involved in the TCN process to celebrate wins and concentrate on areas that need improvement. It is also important to the TCN process itself to track how congregations are doing in order to constantly measure effectiveness and upgrade quality. Congregations which have held consultations are asked to submit monthly statistics to TCN using an Excel spreadsheet provided below. Download the spreadsheet, fill in the metrics and send it as an e-mail attachment to: Resources@missions.com
Download the Monthly Metrics Tracker spreadsheet
District TCN Facilitators: If you have held a consultation, please let TCN know about it by filling in the Completed Consultation Form and submitting it to: djborn@aol.com
Download the Completed Consultation Form
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 Hear Terry Tieman's interview on the Ablaze! segment of the KFUO Morning Show. AM 850 KFUO is the radio ministry of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Download the MP3
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| Florida-Georgia Dist. Conv. Video
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