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GENERAL ASSEMBLYMissional Transformation Resource Groups(Tuesday, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.)• Planning for Leadership Development in Your Congregation• From the Ends of the Earth to our Doorsteps: Being a Global Mission Church• Responding to the Call: Opportunities to serve globally in God’s mission• Mission Pathways: Resources for Congregational Mission• Fit, Trim and Holy: A Place that’s Right and in the Right Place• Raising Resources to Raise Up Mission: Capital Fundraising at its Abundant Best• DARE to lead! A Call for Courageous LeadersReconnect: the Missional Transformation Community re-gathers(Wednesday, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.)LEARNING4Sacred ConversationsThere are so many things we struggle to talk about in the church! It has been saidthat if you get 10 Disciples in the room you will have 12 opinions. Disciples holddear that kind of diversity and freedom of opinion. Yet, without the tools and experienceto have conversations in healthy ways and to make decisions about some issues in themidst of our diversity, we find ourselves unable to deepen our understandings of eachother and our relationships and our witness in the world suffer as a result.Participants in the Sacred Conversation Learning Community will learn about andexperience various formats (models) for engaging difficult conversations and questions,applicable to congregational, regional and general expressions of our church life.Rev. Sandhya Jha offers a theological rationale for engaging difficult topics withcongregations and communities. She will explore why we must talk about difficultand often divisive questions and name basic rules of engagement, practical experience,using real-life questions, will enable participants to experience healthy conversations anddiscover models to use within their own congregations and organizations.Sacred Conversation core lecture, Sandhya Jha(Sunday, 3:30 – 5 p.m.)Sacred Conversation Panels(Monday, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.)• World Café• Circles of Peace• Faithful Conversations84Sacred Conversation Resource Groups(Tuesday, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.)• MODEL: World Café | TOPIC: Questions related toLGBTQI roles and relationships in the Church• MODEL: Faithful Conversation | TOPIC: Unity, War and Peacemaking• MODEL: Circles of Peace | TOPIC: Immigration• MODEL: Circles of Peace and Open Space Technology |TOPIC: to be determined – by YOU!