EDGE
EDGE began in 2011 as a three-year project focused on developing new and renewing ministries across the United Church of Canada. In 2014, it was integrated into the periphery of the United Church of Canada's Church in Mission unit of the General Council Offices. Now, it is a living web of new and renewing ministries and leaders in the power of the Spirit, following Christ, and embracing God's mission in the world.
We work with congregations, presbyteries, conferences, regional councils, and ministries across Canada in new and renewing ministry, property, and innovation.
For more information about EDGE, visit our website.
You Are Here: Help!
This course, the first in EDGE's Signpost Series, is designed to help communities of faith in crisis mode take the first steps on a change journey. Participants will learn to assess and contextualize their current situation and to build a leadership team to address issues. You'll see that a way back to hope is possible!
"You Are Here: Help!" is #1 of EDGE's "Signposts", but can be taken at any point in the series or as a stand-alone course.
Class Structure:
Asynchronous Content: 5 hours
Getting Ready for the Journey
Now that you and your leadership team have gone through Signpost #1 - You Are Here: Help!, are you wondering about the next step in your community of faith's pathway to change? Use this Signpost to help you and your community of faith get ready to begin a journey of curiosity and learning that will steer it toward a new future.
Class Structure:
Asynchronous Content: 5 hours
Traveling Partners
Now that you and your leadership team have gone through the first two Signposts, you are ready for the next step in your community of faith's pathway to change – Signpost #3: Traveling Companions. This Signpost's theme is Community and Partnerships.
Class Structure:
Asynchronous Content: 5 hours
Sustainability Cohort
The Sustainability Cohort is designed to help communities of faith learn skills, through the use of readings, videos, discussion forums and reflective questions, that:
- Encourage them to think differently and critically about how they are working in relationship to their neighbourhoods.
- Address a deep yearning in communities of faith across the network to be relevant in their communities and a backbone organization in their neighbourhoods as they become increasingly vibrant.
- Support the fundamental tools that communities of faith need to start along this path.
The Sustainability Cohort is #6 of EDGE's "Signposts", but can be taken at any point in the series or as a stand-alone course.
Class Structure:
Asynchronous Content: 10 hours