Emmanuel Church
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Appreciative Inquiry for Congregations:
1. Best Experience: Reflect on your entire experience with your congregation. Recall a time when you felt most alive, most involved, spiritually touched, or most excited about your involvement. Tell us about this memorable experience that you have had with your church. Describe the event in detail. What made it an exciting experience? Who was involved? Describe how you felt? Describe what you did as a result of the experience?
2. Values: What is it about this experience that you valued? That you would want to take into the future?
3. Core Value: What do you think is the core value of your church? What values give life to your congregation. What is it that, if it did not exist, would make your church totally different than it currently is?
4. Three Wishes: If you had three wishes for your church, what would they be?