https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Fri, 10 May 2024 23:51:48 +0000 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:05:20 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/classis-past-present-future What is a classis? Dictionary says: (in certain Reformed churches) 1. the organization of pastors and elders that governs a group of local churches; a presbytery 2. the group of churches governed by such an organization Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/classis-past-present-future Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:05:20 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/developing-vision-classis Introduction Every classis has a vision or at least expectations about what a classis is all about.  What does a common vision do? Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/developing-vision-classis Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:54:02 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/ideas-praying-classis Someone once said: “Ministry without prayer becomes work in the power of the flesh. Prayer without ministry is complacent Christianity. Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/ideas-praying-classis Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:54:05 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/synod-our-family-reunion This article is an attempt to share the experience of a relative newcomer moving from the margins to the mainstream—or to be more precise, moving from the balcony to the main stage. Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/synod-our-family-reunion Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:37:30 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/reinventing-judicatory-unthinkable-world Judicatories come in all shapes and sizes. They also come in many different forms, each with names that come out of a tradition. We know them through such names: diocese, regions, conferences, presbyteries, and districts. Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/reinventing-judicatory-unthinkable-world Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:19:17 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/story-crc-classical-renewal-ministry-team The story of CRMT begins in the late ‘80s when Home Missions invited leaders of each of the classes (6 to 8 per year over several years) to conferences on successful church leadership at Robert Schuller’s Garden Grove Community Church. Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/classis/story-crc-classical-renewal-ministry-team Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:51:15 +0000