A Way of living the rhythm of the Mission Prayer. Discovering what it looks like to awaken, respond, risk, and bless.

To cultivate loving-kindness, well-being, happiness, and peace toward ourselves and others. Speaking words of blessing out loud or inwardly does more than reflect our thoughts—they shape our feelings and behaviors.

To center ourselves and be more aware of people and God’s presence by stopping and consciously taking a breath as we enter various spaces during the day.

A Practice to help individuals recognize how they are “showing up” and the reflected impact on their quality of presence and engagement.

Information that encourages and outlines how to create missional practices that cultivate new understandings, ways of being, and living Christ’s mission.

A companion handout for Difficult Conversations—A Missional Practice that offers three scenarios for discussion.

To be mindful and prayerful about creating safe space for all involved to experience peace, reconciliation and healing of the spirit in difficult conversations around conflict, misunderstandings or hurt feelings.

A missional exercise that offers starter questions to help people discover and tell their sacred story.

To listen to God and to one another to hear and discover in new ways God’s direction by reading prayers and posing questions

To listen to God and to one another to hear and discover in new ways God’s direction by reading sacred text in hymns.

To listen to God and one another, to hear and discover in new ways God’s invitation by reading scripture and posing questions.

To forgive for personal well-being and for healing broken relationships by releasing feelings of guilt, anger, or disappointment.

To embody the invitation to Christ’s peace by creating safe space and risking deeper relationships in meaningful conversation with others.

A practice centered on creating welcoming space for others.

To be awake to Christ’s invitation by reading and placing one’s self with Jesus in a story of scripture from the four Gospels.

To intentionally and creatively relate congregational worship experiences to living Christ’s mission throughout the week.

To be awake to Christ’s invitation by being attentive to creation and reading a story of scripture from the four Gospels.

A practice that guides us in risking new relationships with friends and strangers.

To slow down, to go much deeper than transactional conversations and to connect with others at a deeply personal and authentic level where we encounter the presence of Christ.

This practice is about paying attention to the voices in our communities and discerning how we shall live in response to those voices.

A series of questions to consider when practicing listening deeply to the other.

To identify and live with prophetic questions (essential questions) that help people see and live God’s future as individuals and signal communities of justice and peace.

To intentionally and prayerfully record and reflect on our use of time and financial resources each week to seek the Spirit’s guidance to make room to deepen your ministry.

Information that relates and identifies all the missional practices to these primary relationships: Loving God, Loving One Another, and Loving Our Neighbor.

To become fully awake to the world around us and to have courage to go where the Spirit leads

Journal memories and reflections on what we are encountering and learning about God, one another, and our neighbors as we engage in the missional journey. 

Drawn from Ignatian Spirituality, this practice offers a way of reviewing the day with God.

A practice of hospitality to deepen relationships over meals with one another and our neighbors. 

To deepen our relationships with one another and with God by each person sharing an important scripture passage that is meaningful to their lives.

A compiled list of sacred practices to use in intergenerational and children’s experiences.

Listen and pay attention in informal settings to what is happening in the lives of people in your community.

Dwelling in the Word with scripture texts and questions for continued focus a month at a time with focus on Invitation.

Dwelling in the Word with scripture texts and questions for continued focus a month at a time for 12 months.

A practice using images to reflect with God and see with the eyes of the heart.

To walk your congregational or personal neighborhoods to sense where God is active and to sense opportunities for conversation and ways to bless through silent prayer.

To be awake to Christ’s invitation in a story of scripture from the four Gospels and by reflecting on an experience from one’s life and then writing a poem.