group evaluation revision

By meeting together regularly and engaging in meaningful discussion in
regard to our reading list and Bible study, we hope to discover the truth of
what it means to be missional leaders. We want to understand this concept
of "missional", we want to learn what missional churches and leaders are
doing in order to accomplish missional ministry, and we want to understand
what missional philosophy will look like in the context of our communal and
individual ministries.

Some hoped-for-outcomes of this cohort would be:
1. A working definition of what it means to be missional. If we cannot
arrive at this determination,
why not?
2. Is missional ministry a good thing to be sought for?
3. If what ways are our ministries missional or non-missional?
4. We will identifying and strategizing ways to break through barriers to
missional ministry.
5. Our Immersion Retreat will inform a paradigm of missional philosophy
implementation.
6. Our cohort will form real community, challenging one another to live out
God's mission in our
personal lives and corporate and personal ministries.
7. Out of that developed community, we will develop opportunities to serve
and help each other.
8. Some of those opportunities will involve members of our congregations,
building unity and
community among our congregations, modeling the body of Christ working
together to fulfill
missional philosophy.

Some "indicators" along the way would be:
1. The development of an information gathering tool to develop a good
working definition of
pastoral leadership in missional movements.
2. Are greater numbers of the people in our congregations identifying with
missional philosophy (the
definition of which is yet to be defined)?
3. Are some of the programs in our churches connecting with missional
philosophy (the definition of
which is yet to be defined)?
4. Is fruit that should be born from missional movements being born from our
missional philosophy
(the definition of which is yet to be defined)?
5. Are aspects of congregational life that were non-missional being moved
away from in order to
pursue true missional philosophy (the definition of which is yet to be
defined)?
6. Are we aligning our leadership philosophy and goals along the lines of
successful missional leaders
who are implementing missional philosophy (the definition of which is
yet to be defined)?
7. Are we experiencing true missional community as a cohort and helping one
another realize
needed change in becoming missional leaders?