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janwood@goodnewsassoc.org
GOOD NEWS Associates
13730 15th Ave NE #A302
Seattle, WA 98125
Phone: 206-368-6846
Fax: 206-368-6846
The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment is a cooperative venture between GOOD NEWS Associates, George Fox University's Project for Congregational Discernment, the Friends Center at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends. Each brings its perspective and expertise.
GOOD NEWS Associates is a non-profit ministry organization that supports persons in non-institutional ministries. Several of the Associates have expertise in teaching, writing and leading groups to listen to God individually and corporately. Lon Fendall and Jan Wood worked collaboratively giving workshops on group discernment for several years. Lon has integrated discernment into his work in both peace making and higher education in Burundi, Congo, Rwanda and Kenya. They also collaborated in the writing of Practicing Discernment Together, Finding God's Way Forward in Decision Making. GOOD NEWS Associates is providing the administrative leadership for the Institute.
George Fox University's Project for Congregational Discernment is "designed to help Christian congregations find ways to come to unity around a common sense of Christ's leading-regardless of church polity and organizational structures." It is underwritten by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The work of the Project brings a depth and breadth of expertise from scholar and practitioners nationwide. The Project for Congregational Discernment is planning a second national conference on discernment at George Fox University in 2009.
Friends Center at George Fox Evangelical Seminary is the hub of training and mentoring for Friends students at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. It works with "students by offering Friends-specific courses, seminars, and mentoring opportunities." The Center-in cooperation with the Seminary-is able to offer graduate credit for the Institute.
Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends represents 67 Friends Churches in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Inasmuch as Friends Churches' basis of congregational polity is group discernment/sense of the Meeting, Friends (Quakers) have over 350 years of experience in both the successes and failures of discernment as a way of doing business together. The Yearly Meeting office is in Newberg, Oregon-and brings another facet of lived-through experience, expertise and energy to the Institute.
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