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Mar 21 2019

FaithXperimental Spotlight: Grace Cafe, Valdosta, GA

by Ken Howard

The Grace Cafe college group on the porch of Louttit Hall during the 2018 Spring Semester.

Grace Café is an innovative college outreach ministry to students at Valdosta State University (VSU), sponsored by Christ Episcopal Church, Valdosta, Georgia.  

Also known as the Christ Episcopal Church College Ministry, Grace Café is a place of fellowship, prayer, and service. It is also a place at which VSU students of limited means can work in exchange for housing. The program currently has nine college students who live on the church campus and work 20 hours a week running Grace Café, helping with the Thursday Dinners, and serving in other areas of ministry at Christ Church.

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, FaithXperimental Spotlight, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: Christ Episcopal Church, Christ Episcopal Church College Ministry, College Outreach Ministry, Diocese of Georgia, Episcopal Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, Georgia, Grace Cafe, Louttit Hall, strategic missional planning, Valdosta, Valdosta State University

Mar 07 2019

MapDash Evangelism Project: Valdosta, GA

Bishop Russell Kendrick and the Central Gulf Coast team

On February 27, the bishops of the Episcopal Dioceses of Georgia and Central Gulf Coast and their leadership teams gathered at the Grace Cafe, a ministry of Christ Episcopal Church, in Valdosta, Georgia, to continue their work on the MapDash Evangelism Project. The session was led by the Rev. Ken Howard, executive director and principal consultant for FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting. The MapDash Evangelism project is funded by an evangelism grant from Province IV of the Episcopal Church. MapDash for Faith Communities is a product of Datastory, a GIS firm in Baltimore, Maryland. MapDash is collaborative creation of Datastory and FaithX.

At this third working meeting of the project, the bishops and their teams began mapping out living missional strategies for their respective dioceses. A living missional strategy is different from a strategic plan in that a strategic plan tends to be a highly-structured, multi-year document, while a living strategy is emergent, model based, and adaptive.

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: Christ Episcopal Church, datastory, Episcopal Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, Grace Cafe, John 3:16, MapDash Evangelism Project, MapDash for Faith Communities, strategic missional consulting

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