The Episcopal Diocese of Utah
Educational Resources

Resource Center

Are you looking to strengthen your ministry? The Resource Center exists to help you build connections to individuals and groups to stimulate information sharing, conversation and growth opportunities in your areas of ministry; Center staff may also help you locate appropriate, accessible materials for the Christian education and spiritual formation of individuals and groups in your congregational or institutional ministry, and in the wider Utah community.

Services:

• Print and audio-visual (VHS) materials, with print and online catalog in preparation.
• "Living Boldly" a weekly online e-newsletter of links to events, lectures, websites and resources
• A "Helpdesk" function to help you locate what you need

"Live Boldly by accepting the abundance that is present with each of us, the Grace that surrounds each of us, and the Joy of Mission that comes to each of us through our service to one another and our Lord."

— The Challenge, Five Year Plan

Read the "Living Boldly" archives online by following this link.

The Episcopal Church Center Resource Network Proposal

In 2005, at Diocesan Convention, the members of Diocesan Council presented and delegates subsequently adopted "Living Boldly, a Five-Year Plan for the Diocese of Utah. (Follow this link to view the full report in PDF format.)

The plan represents the confluence of several streams over a 10-year process of dreaming, of deciding who we were and are, what we want to be and how to shape the future we envision. The process flow led us from diocesan profile in 1995 to study, adaptation and implementation of the 2000 Thoughtbridge consultants' recommendations through strategic planning in 2003 and a Five-Year Plan of Action reported out in 2005. In 2006 Council members continue to learn how to exercise leadership to implement goals for the Plan's seven "Cornerstones:"

• Evangelism
• Stewardship
• Education and Spiritual Development
• Special and Emerging Ministries
• Social Justice/Service/Advocacy
• Diocesan Leadership
• Facilities

In addition, supplemental cornerstones were added based on the vote of the 96th Diocesan Convention, 2001.

• Prayer and Worship
• Governance
• Communications
• Pastoral Care
• Hospitality
• Ecumenism

Evangelism, Stewardship and Education and Spiritual Development may provide a rationale for all other Cornerstones and supplemental emphases. At the start of the Five-Year plan is Education; at its end, is Spiritual Development - maturity in Christ. Education invites each member of the Body of Christ to awareness, to reflection and committed action.

The overall goal of the Five-Year Plan might be stated as an Outcome, or short term vision:

• Desired Outcome/Vision, short term
• Every person engaged, every person equipped for faithful service
• Every Episcopalian in Utah equipped for discipleship and service as envisioned in the Five Year Plan.

Summary Activity/Mission: The Education and Resource Office seeks to provide age-appropriate, accessible materials for the Christian education and spiritual formation of individuals and groups in diocesan congregations and institutions, and in the wider Utah community.

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