{"response":{"docs":[{"system_create_dtsi":"2023-10-12T15:16:39Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-05-22T02:06:53Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"251d24cb-e0ac-44dd-ac99-a478a1ecef28","accessControl_ssim":["5921867c-5e4d-409d-ae1b-fb908a972b8a"],"depositor_ssim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"depositor_tesim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"title_tesim":["Newcomers and narrative: an exploration for lay leaders"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2023-10-12T15:16:38Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-02-16T23:13:31Z","isPartOf_ssim":["f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["9433236d-3e07-40db-810e-aaaed69bcf8e"],"hasLease_ssim":["e72bc89e-532a-4803-a06b-ddd3198d9bd0"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Unknown"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Virginia Theological Seminary"],"advisor_tesim":["David T Gortner"],"year_tesim":["2013"],"resource_type_tesim":["Unknown"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["William Gray Lesesne"],"keyword_tesim":["Congregations--Self-evaluation"],"publisher_tesim":["Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria, VA)"],"subject_tesim":["Lay Church work","Non-church-affiliated people"],"language_tesim":["English"],"abstract_tesim":["As many modern congregations struggle to attract, welcome and integrate newcomers,one of the challenges the church faces is how we share pieces of our identity and spiritual narrative with newcomers. Lay and clergy leaders in congregations must find ways to share key pieces of not only denominational identity, but also fundamentals of the faith. As well, we must embrace ways of sharing our individual and collective spiritual narratives with newcomers so that they can both connect with our larger spiritual narrative and tell their own. This paper describes the efforts of one congregation's attempt to work with key lay leaders to help them identify pieces of their Christian and denominational identity, to train them in telling their own spiritual narratives to each other, to help them experiment in interacting with and welcoming newcomers (offering those newcomers threads of identity and narrative), and to see what connections, if any, happen between the leaders and the newcomers and in the larger congregation. This thesis tests the proposition that lay leaders will feel more comfortable,competent, and authoritative in welcoming and integrating newcomers into a congregation if they are grounded in core components of denominational identity, can articulate their own faith narrative, and have engaged in Action-Reflection experiments/exercises with newcomers within the context of a formational small group. This project engaged key lay leaders in a multi-stage formation program, tested their interactions with newcomers and their perceptions of themselves in doing so, and discovered that formation activities alone produced limited, mixed results in improving relationships with newcomers."],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-approving","f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-depositing","f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"member_of_collections_ssim":["Miscellaneous"],"member_of_collection_ids_ssim":["4f3e9d5f-fc19-4d44-a264-44b56604eb9a"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Metadata Only"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"_version_":1799716721375838208,"timestamp":"2024-05-22T02:06:53.983Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2023-10-12T14:51:06Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-02-17T08:39:54Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"8cb970db-fed8-4170-b9f5-03348dd3627d","accessControl_ssim":["97bffffa-4670-4ba3-8873-ff05aace90d6"],"depositor_ssim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"depositor_tesim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"title_tesim":["'Picturing' lay ministry: photovoice and participatory group spiritual gifts assessment"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2023-10-12T14:51:05Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-02-17T02:15:30Z","isPartOf_ssim":["f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["7409198e-e19a-4a4b-a78f-0a014e1fdd8b"],"hasLease_ssim":["57d12bc3-17d5-48af-b643-656e907a7226"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Unknown"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"],"advisor_tesim":["Mark Teasdale"],"year_tesim":["2013"],"resource_type_tesim":["Unknown"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Steven G Trefz"],"publisher_tesim":["Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"],"subject_tesim":["Rural churches","Spiritual formation","Gifts, Spiritual","Lay Church work"],"language_tesim":["English"],"abstract_tesim":["The 'Picturing Lay Ministry' project uses the visual methodology of photovoice as a way of generating participatory laity discernment around the topics of calling, Dakotas rural ministry, and spiritual gifts. The project involves working with curriculum action research embedded within one-day ministry discernment events for laity. Measurement tools include a spiritual gift inventory, repeated measures Likert questionnaires, a short-term photovoice exercise, and semi-structured interviews. The research shows that a photovoice intervention positively impacts participants' awareness and ownership of calling and spiritual giftedness, and encourages contextualization of both ministry realities and hope-filled opportunities."],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-approving","f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-depositing","f6c99b2a-5c91-4444-8946-01a1837f1fd8-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"member_of_collections_ssim":["Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"],"member_of_collection_ids_ssim":["fc8e637d-6b92-421f-936e-4844dc981265"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Metadata Only"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["ckarpinski@atla.com"],"_version_":1791134739582681088,"timestamp":"2024-02-17T08:39:58.362Z","score":1.0}],"facets":[{"name":"resource_type_sim","items":[{"value":"Unknown","hits":2,"label":"Unknown"}],"label":"Resource Type"},{"name":"creator_sim","items":[{"value":"Steven G Trefz","hits":1,"label":"Steven G Trefz"},{"value":"William Gray Lesesne","hits":1,"label":"William Gray Lesesne"}],"label":"Creator Sim"},{"name":"contributor_sim","items":[],"label":"Contributor"},{"name":"keyword_sim","items":[{"value":"Congregations--Self-evaluation","hits":1,"label":"Congregations--Self-evaluation"}],"label":"Keyword"},{"name":"subject_sim","items":[{"value":"Lay Church work","hits":2,"label":"Lay Church work"},{"value":"Gifts, Spiritual","hits":1,"label":"Gifts, Spiritual"},{"value":"Non-church-affiliated people","hits":1,"label":"Non-church-affiliated people"},{"value":"Rural churches","hits":1,"label":"Rural churches"},{"value":"Spiritual formation","hits":1,"label":"Spiritual formation"}],"label":"Subject"},{"name":"location_sim","items":[],"label":"Location"},{"name":"language_sim","items":[{"value":"English","hits":2,"label":"English"}],"label":"Language"},{"name":"publisher_sim","items":[{"value":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary","hits":1,"label":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"},{"value":"Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria, VA)","hits":1,"label":"Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria, VA)"}],"label":"Publisher"},{"name":"date_created_sim","items":[],"label":"Date Created"},{"name":"types_sim","items":[{"value":"Text","hits":2,"label":"Text"}],"label":"Type"},{"name":"year_sim","items":[{"value":"2013","hits":2,"label":"2013"}],"label":"Year"},{"name":"format_sim","items":[],"label":"Format"},{"name":"member_of_collections_ssim","items":[{"value":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary","hits":1,"label":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"},{"value":"Miscellaneous","hits":1,"label":"Miscellaneous"}],"label":"Collections"},{"name":"degree_sim","items":[{"value":"Unknown","hits":2,"label":"Unknown"}],"label":"Degree"},{"name":"discipline_sim","items":[],"label":"Discipline"},{"name":"degree_granting_institution_sim","items":[{"value":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary","hits":1,"label":"Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"},{"value":"Virginia Theological Seminary","hits":1,"label":"Virginia Theological Seminary"}],"label":"Degree Granting Institution"},{"name":"department_sim","items":[],"label":"Department"},{"name":"funder_name_sim","items":[],"label":"Funder Name"},{"name":"event_title_sim","items":[],"label":"Event Title"},{"name":"event_date_sim","items":[],"label":"Event Date"},{"name":"institution_sim","items":[{"value":"Atla RIM","hits":2,"label":"Atla RIM"}],"label":"Host Institution"}],"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":2,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}}}