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Five Ways to Activate Businesspeople and Professionals into Mission (and Gain Ministry Partners Along the Way!)
The laity are the church’s greatest untapped resource. But often they are relegated to second-class ministers, or people who support the work of “real” ministry on the front lines, i.e., ordained clergy. This workshop aims to flip that assumption, stating that the real front lines of ministry are where people spend the highest percentage of their lives: at work. It is the work of ordained clergy to support the laity in these (work)places of ministry. Learn ways to enliven the faith of your parishioners at work and how clergy might come alongside them in a new way that re-envisions the priesthood of all believers.
Wayne Park is the Chancellor of Fuller Texas, and Assistant Professor of Congregational and Marketplace Leadership.
Five Ways to Activate Businesspeople and Professionals into Mission (and Gain Ministry Partners Along the Way!)
The laity are the church’s greatest untapped resource. But often they are relegated to second-class ministers, or people who support the work of “real” ministry on the front lines, i.e., ordained clergy. This workshop aims to flip that assumption, stating that the real front lines of ministry are where people spend the highest percentage of their lives: at work. It is the work of ordained clergy to support the laity in these (work)places of ministry. Learn ways to enliven the faith of your parishioners at work and how clergy might come alongside them in a new way that re-envisions the priesthood of all believers.
Wayne Park is the Chancellor of Fuller Texas, and Assistant Professor of Congregational and Marketplace Leadership.
