Browsing Dissertations and Research Portfolios by Subject "Mission of the church"
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Communal Discernment in Organizational Planning: Interweaving, Inclusive and Incarnational Approaches to Missional Direction-Setting in Christian Churches and Organizations
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-02)This research project explores and illuminates ways that practices of communal discernment can be interwoven with organizational planning processes to help a church or organization gain greater clarity around missional ... -
Connecting the Local Church with the Community Through a Service Learning Project: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Endeavour to Increase Gormley Church's Engagement in Community Service and Personal Development
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2016-11)This study, using the participatory action research method, has sought to identify the engagement in community service projects for church members in terms of personal development, community engagement and missional ... -
Empowering Ongoing Transformation in Two Churches by Discerning and Participating in the Mission of God through Looking Up, Around, Back, In and Forward
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2013-04)This project assesses the effectiveness of the discerning process of Looking Up, Around, Back, In and Forward as a means of empowering a church to experience ongoing transformation by discerning and participating in the ... -
Improving Our Welcome: Listening and Responding to Newcomers in Order to Improve the Hospitality of Weyburn Free Methodist Church
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-05)This action research project used interviews to gain insight into the experience of newcomers to a rural church, used group discernment techniques to generate a response, and then evaluated the process and outcomes with ... -
Missional Marriage Ministry: A Pilot Study in Enlisting, Equipping, and Engaging in Missional Expressions of Marriage Ministry
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-04)The intention of this project was to equip, mobilize and assist Christian couples to have missional impact on marriages in the community and in so doing prevent or minimize the negative impact of family dysfunction for ... -
A Strategy to Move a Traditional Church to Being a Missional Congregation: An Experiment in Implementing the Roxburgh Missional Change Model in a Newfoundland and Labrador United Church
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-04)This project focused on moving a traditional church to being a missional congregation. The Missional Change Model (MCM), developed by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk (2006), was used as a guide to that process. The Missional ... -
Transformative Journeys: An 8-Month Engagement of Integrated Discipleship through Service Learning
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-01)Church leaders continue to look for initiatives that will help them lead their congregants to become disciples of Jesus. They are often pressured to do more bible study, increase prayer, or help others serve more in the ... -
Trinity Matters in the Church: One Congregation's Journey to Connecting Identity, Worship and Mission to the Trinity
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2015-05)This thesis provides a rationale for connecting the Trinity more deliberately with identity, worship and mission in the church, and a description and evaluation of a project in a particular congregation to accomplish this ... -
The Use of Appreciative Inquiry to Help a Congregation Through a Crisis Towards a More Positive Outlook: Reemphasizing Discipleship and Leadership Development
(Tyndale University, 2020-03)This portfolio was originally intended to research Discovery Church’s journey to multisite. Over a four-month period just prior to launch of the second site, the church dealt with a leadership and financial crisis brought ... -
Using Appreciative Inquiry and Focused Sermons to Move Congregational Members of Cedarview Church in Paris Ontario to Develop Friendships with Non-Christian Neighbours
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2015-04)