Join Mike Gibson, Pacific Southwest District President, as he shares some thoughts about Living Your Faith Confidently in Election Week.

Mission West Online Conference is a live-broadcast conversation with Tod Bolsinger, author of “Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory,” plus live conversations with leading West Coast practitioners in healthcare, government, and community engagement. “Canoeing the Mountains” was Outreach Magazine’s 2020 “Resource of the Year In Leadership,” and uses the Lewis and Clark expedition as its central metaphor for adaptive leadership. Bolsinger is a West Coast native, Vice-President and Chief of Leadership Formation at Fuller Seminary, and at the forefront of the leadership conversation on adaptive change.

Pacific Southwest District - The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod PSD was live.

This season has revealed many challenges, Many have experienced a strain on face-to-face relationships that are now pushed into on-line connections or socially distanced gatherings. For some congregations, "scattered" church has been the norm from the start. Remaining connected outside of the Sunday morning gathering has always served to deepen the critical social bonds among members of these churches. This week's interview is with one of the amazing speakers for our District All Workers Conference in November. Ashely Paavola is the Director of Youth and Family Ministry at All Nations Church in St. Louis. On this call she is joined by her husband and the Pastor of All Nations, Rev. Chris Paavola. Together we discuss the blessings of using the family/community model of creating and maintaining strong relationships through small groups and scattered ministries. Join us as we continue to grow in our understanding of how to navigate and integrate to the gathered/scattered reality of ministry in 2020!

Pacific Southwest District - The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod PSD was live.

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As founding pastor of the ethnically and economically diverse Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Mark DeYmaz is no stranger to the challenges of ministry. Mark learned early on that it wasn't good enough to simply survive the financial ups and downs in the congregation. He wanted the congregation to thrive; to sustain and even grow their ministries even in the midst of the most challenging of times. This led to his study and application of an innovative three-legged economic system for the church - one that many consider to be a revolution in how we fund our ministry. Join Rev. Dominic Rivkin in his interview with Mark about his latest book The Coming Revolution in Church Economics. You'll be inspired to learn about the three distinct ways to stabilize your funding while blessing and connecting with your community!

For years House Churches and Missional Communities have navigated the waters of building community in creative and innovative ways. Join District Mission Executive Rev. Dominic Rivkin and three practitioners of House Church models as they chat about home-based ministry in our new reality. It's our prayer that their experiences will bless and inspire your ministry now and into the future.