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GEM Consulting
Services
You do not need to reinvent the wheel. GEM Network consultants have had broad
experience in the many aspects of mission and can help you constitute or
re-constitute your global mission or companion diocese committees, and/or
assist you with your questions regarding mission sending (team orientation,
organization, promotion, fund raising) and mission receiving.
GEM Consulting Services draws upon the GEM membership expertise to assist just
beginning or struggling mission efforts around the Episcopal Church. Said in
another way, specific dioceses and mission groups can look at and learn from
what is being done in other parts of the Church to use that as a "model" which
can be adapted for their specific mission relationship. Based upon the
expertise of GEM members, GEM can assist others in setting up viable mission
programs. GEM Consulting Services is provided at cost (transportation, lodging,
and other incidental expenses). The services are available at Provincial,
Diocesan, or parish levels.
Furthermore, GEM has a broad scale mission experience such that combined with
existing diocesan mission leadership, it offers a weekend (Friday night and
Saturday, or Saturday only) Mission Focus Event with mission keynote speakers
and specific workshops around the topics such as: the Global Mission Committee,
the Companion Diocese Committee, organizing for short-term mission, applied
cross-cultural orientation, mission field relationships, deanery projects,
diocesan development groups, etc. If desired, the GEM leaders can speak in area
churches on the Sunday following the Mission Focus Event to continue the weekend
focus on mission.
For further information please contact the Site Deacon at
sitedeacon@gemn.org
Areas of expertise for GEM Consulting Services include:
I. Theoretical
Theoretical and theological basis for mission
Biblical basis for mission
Cross-cultural understanding in mission
Mutuality in mission
II. Practical
The Global Mission Committee
The Companion Diocese Committees
Organizing for short-term mission
Applied cross-cultural orientation
Mission field relationships
Deanery Projects
Diocesan Development Groups
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