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What are strategic change and transition issues to address?
It will be important to incrementally assimilate the newer, younger, emerging leaders into the formal leadership roles of the congregation.
Diversity is empowered by the multiple generations, and the diversity or programs, ministries, and activities that emerge. Congregations who figure out how to benefit from the cacophony of sounds and qualities that emerge from generational diversity will be faith communities of great beauty and joy.
Harmony is achieved through two different types of spiritual and fellowship gatherings.
- First, are ones that are intergenerational in nature.
Regularly these congregations need to be intentionally building relationships between the various generations through face-to-face worship experiences that have representatives from all generations participating in worship and sharing elements of their worship style.
Experiences of worship or fellowship that gather the various generations together must happen monthly.
About three times per year these ought to be experience of sufficient scope where every active participant in the congregation who can is urged to be a part.
- Second, are inter-tenure fellowship experiences. New people may be clueless as to the dynamics of an inter-generational congregation, unless they are intentionally brought into the fold through fellowship, assimilation, and orientation activities.
In many congregational situations inter-tenure issues are even more difficult to bring harmony around than are inter-generational issues.
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