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Louisiana Interchurch Conference Fall Board Meeting
September 18–19, 2006, Monroe, LA
Theme: “How does the LIC move together in practical ways from membership to mission? |
Topic of Conversation – Is LIC an Originator, Warehouse, Distributor, or
Merchant? {Serving a customer}
Convener – Dr. Alan Cutter
Participants – Rev. Joe Hill, Fr. Scott Chemino, Mrs. Ann Ball, Dr. Cory Sparks, Bishop Ronald Herzog, Rev. Paul Pic, Fr. Dan Krutz
Key Points of the Conversation –
- Historical reason for being – to display the visible unity of the people of Christ (week of prayer for unity)
- LIC always fluid – perhaps having a “middle-aged identity crisis”?
- Personal relationships have had a great effect on public ministry
- Currently seeing a new focus on incarnational theology (impetus for originating mission)
- Ideas have been brought to the LIC warehouse and have been successfully spun off (e.g. prison chapels)
- Commissions have been good distributors; what about regional task forces? - perhaps responding to a new need
- We do not know all of the programs we do – need a good history – perhaps an e-mail list to send stories to churches for newsletters? Would help better “branding”.
- LIC has a real strength as a “connecting group”
- “Mission” is activity that touches people
Action Steps / Resources –
- Facilitate getting groups together around common interests – environment; disaster relief
- Possible “How To” pamphlets to facilitate ecumenical dialogue
- Offer interpretation of The Lord’s Supper – Taken, Blessed, Broken, Shared. LIC effective when addressing “broken” lives/systems
- An event yearly (repeated) which lifts up the LIC
