Sustainability Program DMD/LAC Lutheran World Federation http://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com
Stewardship awareness and education for common witness and sustainability
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No human action can replace God’s action of creating and sustaining the church, but be an expression of responsible stewardship of God’s gift to the church.
The context: The paradigms of being the church in LA are in a period of crisis : •
From ethnic to national churches
• Impoverishment of countries has led to the impoverishment of the churches’ constituency, • Churches growing among the excluded and marginalized sections of society. • The “traditional” way of being church is challenged by other denominations, the own membership and the society
多What mission are we called to, with which resources and affirming which model of being church. lucrative
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M ISION IN CONTEXT
DIACONIA IN CONTEXT The Church Contribution
THE MISSION OF GOD
Key Concepts •The Mission of God •Hermeneutical spiral •Participation •Gender approach •Self-reliance and responsible stewardship •Accountability •Systemic approach • Experiential and mutual learning •Institutional change As it is expressed in “Mission” in Context and “Diakonia in Context ”
Sustainability Spiral In the broader perspective of God who creates and sustains
Santiago, mar. 2008 Managua, nov. 2007 Lima, ago. 2008 2010 Transition 4ยบ Meeting, November 2010
Gift and Resources Development Responsible stewardship
Participatory Strategic Planning Planning-evaluating-monitoring
Thinking and building the church
Finding other models of being church
Program Objective To encourage and promote debate and actions which foster sustainable projection of the Lutheran churches members of the LWF in Latin America
Strategies Defining implementation agenda with regional leaders conference and governing bodies Think tank on sustainability (Grupo Animador) “Joint-venture” Training of human resources Facilitation of training materials and resources Communion co-responsibility
Methodologies Gradual process (ministry of Jesus) Involvement and active participation (early Christians) Simultaneous and interdisciplinary process (the contribution of Luther, the two regimes, Law and Gospel) Participatory and mutual learning and action Group learning by doing and sharing.P2P Latin American popular education perspective PME
Tools Discerniment of Our Call and Vision Facilitation of participatory processes Participatory Strategic Planning (and monitoring and evaluation) Mapping and development of gifts and resources Community of faith financial management (accountability standards and performance, stewarship)i.e:Financial Health Check
Finding other models of being church
Experiences in Progress what the curches are doing
Strategic Planning Process and Mission Plan in IELCO (Colombia) Sustainability Process (Honduras) Mission Action Plan PAMI IECLB (Brasil) Facilitators Training Program Participations IELU (Argentina) Financial Health Check for Congregations Also actions in Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Experiences (indicators): IECLB-Brasil http://www.luteranos.com.br/articles/9969/1/Apresentacao/1.html
Experiences (indicators): IELCO - Colombia http://planeacion.ielco.org/dbogota.html
Experiences (indicators): ICLH - Honduras
Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguay http://diaconia.org.ar/formacion/
Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguay
Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguay
Short Term Goals http://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com/category/programa-sustentabilidad-flm/ • To encourage churches to make political decisions about
the Program: to set mid and long term goals and to strength the regional governance of the Program •To motivate the church-to-church accompaniment in sustentability processes •To share learnings with other LWF regions •To motivate a strongly networking with other LWF departments/programs •To buil up and communicate the own PPME of the Program
2010 Operative Plan http://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com/category/programa-sustentabilidad-flm/ • 2010 as a transition year
•Reconnection with stakeholders and partners •Recovering the local experiences •Accompaniment to some local experiences •Blog update •Systematizing the experiences and the process •4th Meeting (November) Program Resources •PLA 9018 (2010 USD38.000) •Core Group (Think Tank) Grupo Animador (volunteers) •16 churches delegates in the program (volunteer) •Facilitator (part-time position rented) •Geneva staff support (administrative and logistic)