A special one-off HeartEdge workshop has been organised for Friday 17 April at 4.30 pm on the HeartEdge facebook page.
This workshop will explore ways to develop community online with congregations. Sally Hitchiner, Adrian Harris and Lorenzo Lebrija will discuss this topic and share examples of interesting and innovative practices from their congregational and national church perspectives.
Sally Hitchiner is the Associate Vicar for Ministry at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Her responsibilities include leading the Sunday morning congregation alongside the pastoral care, liturgical and organisational aspects of the church. She is currently leading ministry to the dispersed congregation of St Martin's through a confidential online community space and pastoral care groups. Sally cut her teeth in setting up and leading online christian community as a university chaplain and in founding and leading the highly successful Diverse Church initiative. This set up online communities for over 1000 participants across the uk, many of whom had left physical gatherings of church and through DC rediscovered christian community which led them back to local churches. Diverse Church grew from one community to being a community planting organisation, launching a new community of 60-100 Christians across the UK and Ireland each year.
Adrian Harris is Head of Digital at the Church of England which supports dioceses and local churches to engage in digital for the opportunities it brings to become a growing Church for all people and for all places. In the last month the team has been developing and sharing services, training churches to use digital platforms to reach their communities during social distancing, and developing new content and resources.
Fr. Lorenzo Lebrija is the founding director of the TryTank, the experimental Lab for church growth and innovation. He is responsible for the entire process of development and implementation of experiments for innovation in the church. (It's a staff of 1, so don't be that impressed!) Prior to launching TryTank, Lorenzo was the Chief Development Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He also served as the Pastor on behalf of the Bishop at St. John's Episcopal Church in San Bernardino, CA, and as priest associate at St. Athanasius Episcopal Church at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in Los Angeles.
As with our sermon preparation workshops, this workshop will be a conversation for about 30 minutes between Lorenzo, Sally and Adrian about the topic, including the sharing of examples of interesting or innovative examples. The second half of the workshop will involve them in responding to questions or comments from those viewing their discussion on facebook.
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