The FaithX Project

Strategic Missional Consulting

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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From the Field – Report on MapDash & Strategic Missional Planning

On September 11, the Dioceses of Georgia and Central Gulf Coast began the first of four sessions of the Mentored Missional Journey using MapDash for Faith Communities. Later in the week, this article was published in the official Diocese of Georgia e-newsletter In The Field.

 

Learning with the Diocese of Central Gulf Coast
By the Rev. Canon Frank Logue
Canon to the Ordinary
Episcopal Diocese of Georgia

On Tuesday, a six-person team from the Diocese of Georgia joined a team from the Diocese of Central Gulf Coast for an initial round of training in using Datastory demographic data led by the Rev. Ken Howard.

The Church Development Institute will use this robust demographic tool as part of its work with congregation teams. Additionally, the Bishop [Scott Benhase] and Canon [Frank] Logue are looking at how this data can assist congregations in their ongoing engagement with Invite-Welcome-Connect. [Read more…]

Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast & Georgia First Subscribers to MapDash for Faith Communities

FaithX and Datastory are happy to announce that the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast and Georgia became the first official Episcopal dioceses to purchase subscriptions to MapDash for Faith Communities and enroll in the Mentored Missional Journey.

Datastory is now in the process of provisioning dashboards for both dioceses: uploading location and parochial report information for all of their congregations, from which they will generate diocesan-level analytic data maps, including Congregational Vitality, Congregational Sustainability, and Missional Opportunity. Their dashboards will also include congregational neighborhood data, including MissionWebs and DriveTime Analysis, as well as a map layers for a host of local neighborhood demographic, lifestyle, issue, and resources data. They will be receiving their fully-provisioned dashboards on or about August 30. [Read more…]

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