Congregation: Facilitated Course
This course is designed to guide congregations through the Welcoming and Affirming Congregation with the assistance of a facilitator. This course may be used as speaker notes or shared as a presentation.
Welcome
Are we welcoming or affirming?
What's Our Purpose?
Community Covenant
What Brings Us Here?
Harmony Website Tour: Programs, Donations, Reports, Resources
How it Works: Program Flowchart
Welcoming and Affirming Program Oversight
Support Team Role
Congregational Role
Facilitator Role
Checking-In
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion - "All Are Welcome" CCS 276 - Beyond the Walls Choir
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
Introduction and Devotion
Module One Review
What is a One-to-One Visit?
What a One-to-One Is (Not)
How One-to-One Visits Will be Utilized in this Program
Preparation for One-to-One Visit
Best Practices for One-to-One Visits
Sustainable Action: Planting the Seeds of Relational Organizing By Rev. Louise Green
Large Group Discussion
Benefits of Building a Relational Culture of Organizing
Congregations and Conflict by Rev. Dr. Anita L. Bradshaw
What are the positive aspects of conflict?
Faithful Disagreement in Community of Christ
Faith Community as a System
Strategies for Addressing Conflict in Congregations
Reflecting on Congregations and Conflict
Ten Tips on Handling Conflict
Checking-In
One-to-One Visit
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion - CCS 327 "Weave" - Beyond the Walls Choir
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
Introduction and Devotion
Module Two Review
Testimony: Gary Gordier
Going Deeper
Power and Privilege Pitfalls
Identity and Power Pitfalls
One-to-One Visit
Checking-In
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
Introduction and Devotion
Module Three Review
Who Am I?
People Over Definitions
Pronouns
Intersectionality
Acronyms: LGBTQIA2S+ and SOGIE
What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean?
Debriefing: Two-Spirit
Beyond the Binary: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
A New Grid: Adding Asexual and Aromantic to the Continuum
History of the Word 'Agender'
Debriefing: Agender
Name Changes and Deadnaming
Laverne Cox on Deadnaming Trans People
Checking-In
One-to-One Visit
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion: I Have Called You By Your Name
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
Introduction and Devotion
Module Four Review
An Update from Harmony
Required Reading
Introduction to Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ History in Community of Christ
National and Multi-National Conferences in Community of Christ
Policy Tracker Map
Worldwide Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ Legal Protections Map
Checking-In
One-to-One Visit
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
Introduction
Devotion
Module Five Review
Statement on Scripture
Clobber Passages
Resource: A Way of Life by Anthony Chvala-Smith
How to know it's OK to be LGBTQ: Matthew 7 - Queer Theology
One-to-One Visit
Checking-In
Reflection and Homework
Closing Devotion
REQUIRED: Facilitator Form
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