Sustainability ProgramDMD/LAC

Lutheran World Federationhttp://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com

Stewardship awareness and education for common witness and sustainability

Latin America, the countries and the churches in the Program

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No human action can replace God’s action of creating and sustaining the church,

but be an expression of responsible stewardship of God’s gift to the church.

The context: The paradigms of being the church in LA are in a period of crisis :• From ethnic to national churches• Impoverishment of countries has led to the impoverishment of

the churches’ constituency,• Churches growing among the excluded and marginalized

sections of society.• The “traditional” way of being church is challenged by other

denominations, the own membership and the society

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M ISION IN CONTEXT DIACONIA IN CONTEXT

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THE MISSION OF GODThe Church Contribution

¿What mission are we called to, with which resources and affirming which model of being church.

•The Mission of God•Hermeneutical spiral•Participation•Gender approach•Self-reliance and responsible stewardship•Accountability•Systemic approach• Experiential and mutual learning•Institutional changeAs it is expressed in “Mission” in Context and “Diakonia in Context”

Key Concepts

Sustainability SpiralIn the broader perspective of God who creates and sustains

Santiago, mar. 2008

Managua, nov. 2007

Lima, ago. 2008

2010 Transition

4º Meeting, November 2010

Program ObjectiveTo encourage and promote debate and actions which foster sustainable projection of the Lutheran churches members of the LWF in Latin America

Gift and Resources DevelopmentResponsible stewardship

Participatory Strategic PlanningPlanning-evaluating-monitoring

Thinking and building the church Finding other models of being church

Strategies

Defining implementation agenda with regional leaders conference and governing bodies

Think tank on sustainability (Grupo Animador)

“Joint-venture”Training of human resourcesFacilitation of training materials and resourcesCommunion co-responsibility

Methodologies

Gradual process (ministry of Jesus) Involvement and active participation (early Christians) Simultaneous and interdisciplinary process (the

contribution of Luther, the two regimes, Law and Gospel) Participatory and mutual learning and action Group learning by doing and sharing.P2P Latin American popular education perspective PME

Tools Discerniment of Our Call and VisionFacilitation of participatory processesParticipatory Strategic Planning (and monitoring and evaluation)

Mapping and development of gifts and resources

Community of faith financial management (accountability standards and performance, stewarship)i.e:Financial Health Check

Finding other models of being church

Experiences in Progresswhat the curches are doing

Strategic Planning Process and Mission Plan in IELCO (Colombia)

Sustainability Process (Honduras)Mission Action Plan PAMI IECLB (Brasil)Facilitators Training Program Participations IELU

(Argentina)Financial Health Check for CongregationsAlso actions in Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador,

Nicaragua

Experiences (indicators): IECLB-Brasilhttp://www.luteranos.com.br/articles/9969/1/Apresentacao/1.html

Experiences (indicators): IELCO - Colombiahttp://planeacion.ielco.org/dbogota.html

Experiences (indicators): ICLH - Honduras

Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguayhttp://diaconia.org.ar/formacion/

Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguay

Experiences (indicators): IELU –Argentina Uruguay

Short Term Goalshttp://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com/category/programa-sustentabilidad-flm/

• To encourage churches to make political decisions about the Program: to set mid and long term goals and to strength the regional governance of the Program•To motivate the church-to-church accompaniment in sustentability processes•To share learnings with other LWF regions•To motivate a strongly networking with other LWF departments/programs•To buil up and communicate the own PPME of the Program

2010 Operative Planhttp://sustentabilidad.wordpress.com/category/programa-sustentabilidad-flm/

• 2010 as a transition year•Reconnection with stakeholders and partners•Recovering the local experiences•Accompaniment to some local experiences•Blog update•Systematizing the experiences and the process•4th Meeting (November)

Program Resources•PLA 9018 (2010 USD38.000)•Core Group (Think Tank) Grupo Animador (volunteers)•16 churches delegates in the program (volunteer)•Facilitator (part-time position rented)•Geneva staff support (administrative and logistic)