We face new challenges every day as we seek to serve diverse and ever-changing communities. Grace in Action is always adding new “Tools to Serve Others” to equip your team for ministry in the 21st century.
Cultural Competency
Two-and-a-half to three-hour workshop, available onsite
Who: Ministry leaders and workers
The Issue: Many churches and schools exist with a monocultural identity. While we know there will be all different types of people in heaven, that isn't always true in congregations. How do ministry leaders and teams work to share God's word with new cultures and understand the values and social norms of that group?
The Answer: Ministry leaders and teams will be challenged, will be equipped, will grow, and will build a strong foundation in their understanding of cultural competency as they carry out the Great Commission in their cultural setting.
- Phase 1 - CC Overview
- Phase 2 - Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Phase 3 - MLK Birmingham Letter
- Leading in Multicultural Setting Presentation
- IDI Debriefs - Individual and Organizational
Results: Your ministry leaders and team will do the following:
- Grow in their understanding of Cultural Competency
- Learn about different cultural groups and how to serve their spiritual needs
- Create evangelism and outreach goals and strategies to spiritually serve new cultural groups
- Build the capacity to serve in a culture setting that is unfamiliar to them
Enhancing Your Visitor-Friendly Culture
Two-Hour Workshop, available onsite or online
Who: Ministry Leadership Teams
The Issue: When we don’t have a broad visitor-friendly culture at our churches (one that goes beyond the Pastors and perhaps some key greeters), our congregation misses out on repeat worship visitors and further opportunities to share the Gospel.
The Answer: In this 2-hour workshop, your team will study a model of a customer-centric organization, discussing tactics used to welcome and engage visitors. Afterward, you will design a visitor-friendly experience for your ministry and walk away with specific plans for implementation.
Results: Your team has an action plan to create a visitor-friendly culture, moving your ministry’s outreach and evangelism efforts forward.
Revising your Mission Statement and Core Values
Two-Four-Hour OnsiteWorkshop
Who: Ministry Leadership Teams
The Issue: Teams with existing ministry plans need to periodically update them, but doing this is easy to procrastinate on.
The Answer: In this 2-4-hour workshop, GIA will help your team work through a process to refresh both you mission statement and core values. The team will also assess whether it is truly living the mission and demonstrating the core values.
Results: Teams that are strongly focused on their mission and demonstrate their core values in all they do.
360 Degree Evaluations
The completion of the evaluations that are then compiled and used by a GIA coach to help with leadership growth. The time involved varies from team to team.
Who: All ministry leaders
The Issue: Leadership teams function better when members understand how their leadership abilities and attitudes are perceived by the rest of the team.
The Answer: 360 Degree Evaluations are a tool that leaders can use to assess their leadership and their teams’ perspective of their leadership. Goals can then be set for leadership growth.
Results: Leadership teams functioning at a high level. Teams that see what strengths leaders bring to the team.
The GROW Tool
Two-Hour OnsiteWorkshop
Who: Ministry Leadership Teams
The Issue: Teams struggle to make quick and accurate decisions.
The Answer: In this 2-hour workshop, GIA will help your team use the GROW tool to make better decisions more quickly as individuals and a team. The GROW tool will also help you with internal coaching of your team members.
Results: Better and quicker decisions by team members and the entire team.
The Power of Habits
Who: All ministry leaders
The Issue: Our habits have a tremendous impact on our health, our energy level, and our leadership capabilities. However, our habits are not always contributing in positive ways and we can develop a negative attitude toward habits.
The Answer: Taking time to grow in the understanding of our current habits and their impact on our ministry allows us to establish new and more positive habits. Learning how habits function helps us build healthy habits that stick.
Results: Leaders functioning at a high level. Team members that encourage one another’s habit formation and continuation.