At the invitation of the General Secretary, 25 to 30 Church of the
Brethren members will convene on March 28-30 for a leadership summit in
northern Virginia. Participants hold both formal and informal leadership
positions within the Church of the Brethren. The purpose of the summit
is to prayerfully examine the dynamics of leadership needed in the
church today.
“Given the current state of the church,” said general secretary Stan
Noffsinger, “now is an important time to gather together a group of
leaders from across the Church of the Brethren, in order to consider how
the church may move forward from this place and time.”
According to Mary Jo Flory-Steury, associate general secretary, the
summit has been convened neither to set policies nor to make any
decisions. Rather, said Jayne Seminare Docherty, one of the facilitators
for the event, “We are seeking to create a kind of ‘learning
laboratory’ where leaders will engage in conversations about how they
can more effectively assist the whole church engage Christ’s call to
live according to kingdom values while engaging in deliberation and
decision making about difficult issues.”
A professor of leadership and public policy at the Center for Justice
and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.,
Docherty recently returned to the US from four years in Myanmar
(Burma), where she worked to develop inclusive peace processes and
culturally appropriate negotiation practices. Co-facilitator Roger
Foster, a graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, also
spent the last six months in Myanmar with Docherty, working with
religious and civil society organizations who were focusing on strategic leadership development.
Source:2/22/2012 Newsline
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