Friday, October 05, 2018

KCML speech at General Assembly 2018

As a member of National staff, I am offered 5 minutes to visit General Assembly and speak about KCML.  Here is what I said to GA 2018 on Thursday. (Here is what I said on GA 2016).

Tena koe, e te moderata. Tena koe, e te waewae tapu, honoured ecumenical guests. Ko koutou nga uri o Te Tahu Ngahere, tena koe.

Greetings to everyone one of you, as people of the burning bush. As people of the burning bush, we follow a God revealed in Exodus 3 as a God who listens, who hears. To listen has been a priority for us as KCML in the last 2 years. Through the Thornton Blair Research project we’ve listened to over 285 Presbyterian leaders, as individuals and in Presbytery focus groups.

We’ve heard that you want resourcing in Faith, Community, Witness, Leadership and Innovation. We’ve heard you want this delivered not only in classrooms in Dunedin, but delivered in ways that are flexible, accessible and varied. In response, we’ve built a website. Perhaps for the first time ever in church, you’re welcome to pull out your cell phones. Check out living library.

(The website will be open for the duration of GA. Then closed again for a few weeks while we attend to your feedback – what works; what could be improved).

The website is shaped around what you said you needed resourcing in – Faith, Community, Witness, Leadership and Innovation. For each theme there are resources – videos, courses, books, short interviews. We offer this website as a resource for all leaders, all people across the PCANZ.  Thank Synod of Otago Southland and Thornton Blair Trust for making this website possible.

We’re people of the burning bush – Ko koutou nga uri o Te Tahu Ngahere –

Once God listens; God then sends.  KCML continues to send ministers; by training LOMs and NOM’s

  •  Can the NOM interns here among us – stand; and any LOM’s probationers, I also invite them to stand.
  • Every intern existing in a training partnership. If there are any mentoring ministers of those NOM or LOM – I invite you to stand
  • If there are any supervisors these NOM or LOM – please stand
  • If there are any churches who host these NOM or LOM – please stand.

So as the PCANZ – we together as people of the burning bush – continue to send ministers into ministry

(Thanks be seated.)

In the last two years, KCML has reviewed curriculum – every lecture, every assignment – against NOM core competencies. In the last two years, we’ve offered a LOM refresher course and we’ve worked with NAW on increasing cultural competency. As KCML, we’re deeply aware that we’re sending leaders into a very different mission context.

If I had 5 more minutes I’d tell you about

  • New Mission Seedlings – KCML partnerships with Alpine and Southern; placing NOM interns in placements where there is no church – into mission field – be formed for new mission context
  • Listening in mission – online support for ministers around NZ
  • Lighthouse – offers invite only coaching for lay people in mission experiments
  • Snapshots in mission 18 – in your bags – taking best of current Presbyterian mission thinking and gifting it to every church in PCANZ

I stand on behalf of a core KCML team of gifted servants; of Mark Johnstone, Geoff New, Susan Peters, Kevin Ward, Malcolm Gordon.

Thanks for funding – historic investment, Assembly assessment, from local intern churches, Synod Otago Southland and PDS.

Thank the boards who govern and advise us as KCML – Advisory Board; Leadership SC; Resources SC; Council of Assembly – who help us as KCML as we seek to fulfil our Book of Order mandate 9.6.3 – to be a national resource and structure – for listening and sending in mission.

Thankyou.

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