Leading With Grace

We are looking forward to finally gathering together to worship, to work, and to share all that’s been going on in our lives and in our churches; however, after studying COVID statistics from our various LWG sites, and consulting with the Bishop, Canons, and our trainers, we have decided to reschedule the February weekends and move our first meeting to the same March dates we previously posted. Although COVID numbers are beginning to decline, we would feel more comfortable – and believe we’ll have more participation – if we delay our start. We plan to keep the scheduled dates for March and May, add a weekend in August for the western side of the diocese, and add a weekend in October to replace our February weekend. We are also extending the deadline to March 4, 2022. 

Clergy and laity, especially first-year vestry members, from the Diocese of Georgia are invited to a new diocesan training school called Leading With Grace (LWG) from what was formerly known as the Diocese of Georgia’s Church Development Institute (CDI). This change is much more than in name only. During the pandemic, the CDI team and Diocesan Council collected feedback, reflected on our ten years of service and considered societal shifts. All of this helped to create our new curriculum geared toward equipping clergy, vestry and lay leaders with the tools they need to grow their parishes. 

Leading With Grace comprises the essential components of CDI and some new material based on the team’s ministry experiences. A complete year will be four weekends, each of which will begin on Friday evening at 5 PM and will finish at 3 PM on Saturday, interspersed with prayer, small and large group discussion and practice. LWG will take place in one year cycles in four different regional centers around the diocese.