The church board movement began to take shape in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church in the early 1970s. This booklet offers board members many suggestions for continual spiritual growth or formation within the context of their governance role, ensuring that the institution is living out its mission, and that their decisions reflect specifically that mission and the Gospel. The booklet states that an organization's greatest source of strength is personal strength: the character, courage, determination, knowledge, and the skills of the individual members of the organization. It states that this theory applies to boards, commissions, and councils of Catholic education. Following the "Foreword" and "Introduction," the booklet is divided into eight chapters: (1) "The Call to Minister"; (2) "Defining Spirituality"; (3) "A Church Model of Decision Making"; (4) "A Spirituality that Supports the Model"; (5) "Discerning Membership"; (6) "Group Behavior"; (7) "Prayer as an Integral Part of Meetings"; (8) "Nurturing the Spirit"; and "Some Final Thoughts." (BT)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- National Catholic Educational Association, Washington, DC.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Descriptive
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Jesus has a great deal to say about leadership in the Gospels 12
- This is not an excuse to be less than we can be as we seek to 16
- How are we to capture and practice that faith approach in the 20
- A Spirituality That Supports the Model 25
- It is a gift of the Spirit and a tradition that comes to us from the 25
- To see the heart of the matter with spiritual eyes from Gods 26
- Chapter 7 43
- Identify a Theme 44
- Develop the Experience 45
- The Setting 45
- God touches and forms us and walks the journey with us. Faith 47
- Some Final Thoughts 52
