Description

Two new tools assist churches to face the changing demographic reality. “40 Days to Jubilee,” which is centered on Isaiah 58, orients the church to become personally transformed into a community ready to engage their extended community in a relevant way. It is a whole-church, 40-day engagement including five sermons and synced cell group studies with practical applications. The second tool, “Community RoundTable,” assists our EFCA districts and churches to become a reconciliation catalyst. This booklet provides a biblical process for different communities gathering and exchanging points of views in a way that is engaging and learning how to do ministry in other contexts.

Session 1 | 9-10 am

40 Days to Jubilee: Being Free to Love and Serve our Neighbor

Session 2 | 10:30-11:30 am

How to do a Reconciliation "Community RoundTable"

Session 3 | 1-2 pm

"Community RoundTable" - From Talking to Doing

Alejandro (Alex) Mandes

Executive Director of All People Initiative
EFCA

Alex has several streams that qualify him to speak to this issue. As a Hispanic working among all kinds of peoples, he has shown himself a good broker to implement real, effective programs for equipping the church to make disciples and plant churches. He does this with a passion that flows out of his first love of making disciples. He says that diversity, justice, and reconciliation are not the primary objective; however, if we make disciples like Jesus did we will have all kinds of disciples and – as an added extra – reconciled communities that will lead us into the future. He has planted multiple churches. He has various post graduate degrees. Above all he is a passionate churchman who loves the Evangelical Free Church of America.