Purpose
To visualize the congregation turned inside
out, a gathered AND scattered community.
Summary
Use colored push pins to create a
vocation bulletin board, a map of congregants Monday-Saturday callings
in God's world.
Steps
1. Find a large cork bulletin board.
2. Locate relevant maps. Depending on the desired degree of
detail, gather some combination of neighborhood, city, region, state,
nation, and world maps.
3. Gain knowledge of the locations in which your congregation lives
out its scattered callings.*
4. Insert push pins to as visual representation of these callings.
* For example, you might conduct a congregational audit or just make
pins available and invite folk to push them in where appropriate.
Tips
1. Consider using colored push pins to distinguish types or domains of
calling (e.g., home = blue, workplace = green, community presence =
yellow).
2. Add commentary (use yarn to make a line to an explanatory call out
blurb) for some of the pins. For example, consider rotating
photographs or narrative descriptions that give a face to the pins.
References
| Activity inspired by a snippet from: Dickhart,
Judith McWilliams. Church-going Insider or Gospel-carrying
Outsider? A different view of congregations. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2002. Out of print. |
"The main point of this book is
that lay members, who have information about the world, are
Gospel-carriers into their daily places. Another step in
re-balancing vision is to visually demonstrate this concept by
re-drawing the congregation's boundaries to include its members
daily places.
Ask members to construct a pin map that includes both their home
places (blue pins?) and work places (green pins?). Use the map to
imagine ways to announce the Gospel to people in those scattered
communities." p. 121 |
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