March 22, 2016 News
Register for ECF's Spring 2016 Webinars!
ECF's free webinars are a great way to get your congregational leadership teams engaged in the strategic, leadership, and financial topics that are essential to the health of your congregation. This spring's lineup includes webinars on leading change, planned gifts, clergy transition, understanding congregational conflict, and more. Get your teams registered today!
- First Steps in Leading Change, April 5 at 7 PM ET: This webinar focuses on general principles and best practices for leading a change process effectively.
- "I don't have enough money to make a planned gift!", April 6 at 7 PM ET:Discusses the real opportunities that exist in your parish for helping donors know that even they can make a planned gift.
- Strategic Visioning and Planning for Congregation, April 7 at 7 PM ET:By thinking strategically, congregations can get unstuck and move into having relevant conversations and effectively plan for the future.
- [Spanish Language Webinar] Primeros pasos para liderar cambios,April 19 at 7 PM ET: Este webinario se concentra en los principios generales de liderar un proceso de cambio con efectividad y en las mejores prácticas para hacerlo.
- Determining Spending Rules and Investment Allocations, Apr 20, 2016 at 7 PM ET: The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA), a state law, addresses how to invest and spend from your “true” endowments.
- Cancelled - First Steps in Understanding Congregational Conflict, May 3rd at 7 PM ET: Introduces a theological and biblical context for seeing and understanding that conflict is essentially relational.
- Beginning the Clergy Transition Process, May 19th at 7 PM ET:This webinar is designed to provide practical tips and concepts to consider during a search for new clergy leadership.
- Storytelling as Evangelism, May 24 at 6 PM PT (9 PM ET): Drawing on his experiences of leading a parish in a congregational storytelling project over the past year, ECF Fellow Edmund Harris will invite participants to consider how sharing stories in their own church contexts might enable people to engage in evangelism.
- [Chinese Language Webinar] 迎接人口结构变化的祝福和挑战:圣公会李添嫒中文事工中心, June 30 at 7 PM PT (10 PM ET): 主持人：倪慧良牧师博士，圣公会基金会2014年度会员，圣公会李添嫒中文事工中心主任，…
Want to see where else ECF will be offering workshops throughout the Episcopal Church? Check out the full ECF Events Calendar which includes both the webinars listed above as well as the on-site workshops we will participating in across the Church.