Leading Ideas – Lewis Center for Church Leadership – Wednesday, 15
January 2014
A Report from the Director
Part 4: Mission Engagement
Changes Congregations Are Facing Today
A Tenth Anniversary Series
Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
The goal of mission is an enhanced community where all have the
chance to experience the abundant life God desires.
“Mission” has been a mainstay of church language for a very long
time, and it continues to carry power today. For example, when we ask clergy
and laity the open-ended question — “Where is God most alive and working in
your congregation today?” — the most common response by far is a variation on
mission engagement.
Yet the way mission is carried forward within the body of Christ
is changing. For many years, mission was more likely to be talked about as
“missions” and was done somewhere by others and paid for by congregations. That
is not the understanding of mission people are referencing when they describe
where God’s power is most present in the churches today.
What has changed and how are churches responding?
A greater emphasis on local engagement. Churches once talked of
“foreign missions” and “home missions” as ways of describing international efforts
and national ones. Today, churches with strong mission outreach still have a
significant global and national component, but the scope of local mission
engagement is far more developed and vital.
More hands-on involvement. Churches today are more likely to
have a personal connection to much of their mission. Churches that once prided
themselves on the long list of causes to which they contributed each year now
measure much of their fruitfulness in the number of mission projects to which
members give both time and money. This change is true not only for local
mission, but also for national and global projects. The popularity of mission
trips and other forms of volunteer mission engagement is part of this trend.
An appreciation of mission as mutual and relational.
Increasingly, mission is seen not as what you do for the community but what you
do with the community. There is less and less “us” and “them” as churches come
to see themselves as part of the community and often a reflection of the
community for good and ill. There is mutuality of giving and receiving required
for community service that has integrity. The goal of mission is an enhanced
community where all have the chance to experience the abundant life God
desires. And this goal is achieved when missional efforts emphasize the
importance of building relationships, not just performing tasks or writing
checks.
The importance of partnerships and networks. Beyond
denominational mission involvement, churches in the past were likely to engage
in projects by themselves. Today various networks often develop around a
particular issue or place about which a group of churches has a shared passion.
Many churches today are partnering not only with churches of other traditions
but also with other organizations within the community to serve their neighbors
better. Churches sometimes want more credit and control than is possible in
genuine partnerships. But we are all learning new ways to behave together.
There is not much room for triumphalism in our day.
More direct mission giving beyond denominational channels. One
of the major changes in the past ten years is the percentage of congregational
mission giving that goes directly to the mission itself. It may be channeled
through a denominational agency for accountability, but this giving is beyond
what the churches pay in support of the overall denominational mission program.
A missional perspective on the stewardship of church property.
Many churches have come to see their buildings as a ministry asset and seek
creative ways of using their space to serve their communities. Other churches
are questioning the need for additional “bricks and mortar” investments in
order to devote more resources to missional priorities. This is rarely a
question of “mission” or “building,” for both are important, but rather an
awareness of the missional implications of decisions regarding the acquisition
and use of church property.
The intergenerational appeal of mission work. While most new
people come into the life of a church through the portal of worship, there is
growing evidence to suggest that younger adults are often first attracted to a
church’s mission activities. In this and many other ways, vitality in mission
can contribute to congregational growth. Mission brings people together across
generational, denominational, racial, social, and political groups.
Conclusion
While the language of mission may sound like that of previous
generations, the way it manifests itself within the body of Christ is changing.
God is indeed doing a new thing!
Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
Part 1: Worship Attendance Patterns
Part 2: Finances
Part 3: Newcomers
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Save the Dates
In March, the Lewis Center will present two valuable learning
opportunities for church leaders. On Saturday, March 22, in Washington, DC, we
will offer Serve Your Neighbor: Engaging Local Schools, our inaugural
conference on the subject of mission. The following Saturday, March 29, we
bring our Funding Your Congregation’s Vision: Increase Generosity in Your
Church Conference to Charlotte, NC. Watch for additional details and
registration information later this month.
March events
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Time for a Church Energy Audit?
The Indianapolis Center for Congregations has done much to help
churches use and care for their facilities. The Alban Institute’s “Congregational
Stories” highlights some of these churches’ journeys toward energy efficiency.
From descriptions of simple steps like turning down thermostats to complete
lighting system overhauls, these congregations’ stories should provide many
good ideas for improving your church’s energy use. Download the PDF.
Time for a Church Energy
Audit?
Energy Audit
No one was more excited about the prospects than Ken Wheeler,
who remembers the day he attended a meeting that started the energy-audit process
for four area churches.
“I sat there and shook,” said Wheeler, chairman of the Board of
Trustees at Roberts Park United Methodist Church, “because I
didn’t have four or five other trustees tolisten to what he had to say.”The
“he” was Andy Rudin, an energy management consultant from Philadelphia’s
Interfaith Coalition on Energy. Rudin was in Indianapolis to brief officials
from the four churches that had decided to take part in an energy audit funded
by grants from the Indianapolis Center for Congregations.
The three other churches that followed through with the program were
Downey Avenue Christian Church, Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis
and Third Christian Church.
Wheeler came away from the meeting with high hopes – and over a
year and a half later those hopes have proven to be justified.
“This process saved us a lot of money,” said Wheeler, whose
church is a historic 1876 structure that is a landmark of downtown
Indianapolis.
“Our old building requires constant attention,” Wheeler said,
but quickly added that any church would benefit from the type of information
gained from the program, “Energy Conservation in Houses of Worship.”
While Wheeler remains the most enthusiastic cheerleader for the project,
and Roberts Park perhaps the most significant beneficiary of the program, the
other three churches give positive reviews of the energy audit.
“It has paid off for us,” said John Garnier, property manager at
Downey Avenue Christian Church, talking about the $1,100 the
church put up for the matching funds awarded through the Indianapolis Center for
Congregations Small Grants Program.
That program is designed to provide financial support to
congregations seeking to use the best resources to address their practical challenges
and opportunities.
While the experience at each church was as different as the
church buildings and congregations themselves, common themes emerged from the
audit process:
• Thermostats can indeed be turneddown when buildings aren’t in
use.
• State-of-the-art lighting can save money.
• Church buildings need more oversight than a traditional
“janitor” can provide.
• Heating and air-conditioning companies don’t always do what
they say they’re doing.
The latter point raised many an eyebrow at Roberts Park, where
the church had used two boilers for years. At least church leaders thought they
were using two boilers. Wheeler said it didn’t take long for Rudin to spot a
fundamental problem. He pointed out that each boiler carried the heat outward
in a three-inch pipe; the two pipes then merged into another three-inch pipe. Rudin
asked, “Do you see anything wrong?”
It doesn’t take a degree in physics to answer that question, as
Wheeler and his fellow trustees learned that the faulty hardware meant that the
two boilers had been doing the work of one. Actually, one boiler would have
produced more heat than the faulty two-boiler setup.
“And the boilers were just seven or eight years old,” Wheeler
said, noting that the faulty piping system was reworked. “It’s unbelievable the
success we have had.” in 1963 on the city’s northeast side. Frequent repairs to
the boiler were what prompted Briley to look into the energy audit program.
Despite the fact that the boiler had been welded twice, Rudin
said he thought the church could avoid buying a new furnace – but the floor
went out when the work was attempted.
On Rudin’s recommendation, the church ended up with a new furnace
and baker, at a cost of $25,000
“We knew it was a calculated guess,” Briley said of the failed
strategy. “I was impressed with Andy. I felt he gave us a lot of insight.”
Rudin was also hesitant to tell the folks at Downey Avenue
Christian Church to buy new equipment, but Garnier said they couldn’t get the
old burner to function correctly.
“So we went with a new burner which should save us 30 to 40
percent,” he said. “It was expensive, but I think it is going to pay for
itself. It gets the boiler pressure up to pressure in 10 minutes.”
When Rudin arrived on the scene, Garnier was already frustrated
with local contractors. He said the church was paying a maintenance fee, but
getting little if any work for that money. “I started looking at the bills,” he
said, the closer scrutiny having prompted him to change companies twice since
the energy audit began. His troubles didn’t end with Rudin’s recommendations,
however. The first contractor Rudin recommended (on the basis of that firm’s
work with other Indianapolis area churches) didn’t pan out for the Downey Avenue
church.
Garnier, a member of the church in addition to being on the
payroll as property manager, said his job is “to get the best bang for the
buck” when it comes to taking care of the three buildings, the oldest of which
dates to 1952.
“The air volume and BTU usage in the Education Wing was our
biggest problem,” he said. With usage low in the summer, he is looking for
options, including more sophisticated thermostats “and constant vigil.”
That is also the theme at the Unitarian Universalist Church,
where Ray Wilson and Enrique Alvarez spearheaded the energy effort that was as
much about conservation as it was about cost-savings.
“Our congregation has a very strong sense of environmental
stewardship,” said Wilson, a past president of the congregation that is located
on four acres near Butler University on the former site of the Orchard School.
The campus consists of four buildings that are served by seven different
heating and air conditioning systems. Unlike the other churches, the Unitarian
Universalist Church did not enter the program with an overriding furnace
problem. “Managing them is the difficult part,” said Wilson, “because we don’t have
a custodian. We try to use timed thermostats, but they get messed up.”
As part of the energy audit, Rudin sent each participating church
a temperature recorder, to be placed in an out-of-the- way location
to chart temperatures. Monthly energy bills were also studied. The result,
Wilson said, was an interesting report that served as a starting point for
change.
“What this report gave me the freedom to do is turn the thermostats
down more than I used to,” said Wilson, himself an engineer. Where before the
buildings went to 55 degrees when they aren’t in use, Wilson now sets the
thermostats to 50 – without any harm to the organ or piano.
“That’s the secret to running church buildings,” he said, referring
to minimizing the heating or A/C when the building is not in use.
“I had hesitated to do that in the past, because I was concerned
that people would complain,” he said. “Andy convinced me that the savings are
worth the potential trouble.”
Rudin also told Wilson to put timers on switches in rooms with
exhaust fans, such as restrooms.
Wilson’s ability to implement all facets of the recommendations
was limited by several factors, including that the congregation had not decided
whether to replace or renovate one of its four buildings, the “cottage,” which provides
space for the minister’s office and for adult religious education. Another
building is used by a Head Start program, which controls (and pays for)
utilities.
“We have not made the progress we should have,” Wilson said,
noting that the church has replaced some light bulbs with
models recommended by Rudin, and has tried without much success
to install timers in some locations. One simple, but effective trick: putting
low-level LED bulbs in the exit lights, which are on 24 hours a day.
At Roberts Park, meanwhile, Rudin’s recommendations about
lighting have resulted in a sweeping change. Through a five-month project, all
lighting in the historic downtown church has been retrofitted. Richard Smith,
the church’s business manager, said the lighting improvements enabled the
addition of lighting in areas of the building that desperately needed a brighter
ambiance.
“It definitely gave us the inspiration to get some of these
things taken care of,” Smith said.
At Third Christian Church, work is continuing on upgrading both
the lighting and the fixtures. Rev. Briley said one report indicated the cost
to upgrade the entire system at $9,000. The church has spent about two-thirds
that amount to date. “Lighting is not our top priority,” Rev. Briley said,
“except in the children’s wing. We have to set our priorities, because it is
expensive.”
For a struggling congregation that is working hard to lure in
new members and bond with its neighborhood, Briley sees a second benefit. “The
new lighting has been noticed by our members. It adds a sense of newness,” he
said, noting that the switch to white light, as opposed to yellow, “gives it a fresher
feeling.”
Rev. Briley said the congregation is working to improve the
church’s visibility in the neighborhood, an effort that includes removing
unsightly shrubs.“We decided that if we were to have a future, we had to help
people find us. But once they’re in the building, our goal is to not turn
people off.”
Lighting changes have also had an effect at Downey Avenue
Christian Church, where Garnier has implemented many of Rudin’s recommendations
on lights as well as hardware, plus more effective timers.
“I’m not an electrician, but it wasn’t hard to do,” he said, noting
that electricity costs are down as much as 30 percent from the year before.
More challenges remain, however, as Garnier turns his attention to the basement,
“where we need to bring that lighting up to par” for the rooms used as Sunday School
classrooms and for meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.
While the congregation has been largely supportive of the
efforts, Garnier said one plan to soften the lighting in the sanctuary has been
reversed. “We are very pleased with what has happened,” he said, although
adding, “that the congregation notices clean floors and shiny mirrors more.”
And while all of Rudin’s original recommendations haven’t proved
workable, Garnier remains supportive.
“It would be nice to have him, or someone like him, in Indianapolis,”
Garnier said, adding that congregations need help figuring out what contractors
are reliable. On that subject, the twice- burned Garnier has
some recommendations
of his own. “Do some
Better Business Bureau
work,” he suggested. “Call supply houses to get their opinion
on contractors. And try to learn as much as possible about your
system as you can beforehand,” he added. “Otherwise, you are
at their mercy.”
Ollie Reynolds, property manager at Third Christian Church, said
congregations would benefit from Rudin’s expertise, but he concurred that at
least some of the work can be done in-house. He said church leaders can study
their own utility bills and do some common-sense things such as turning off
lights and sealing windows. “I don’t need Andy to tell me those things,” he
said; adding that then, if you’re not successful in reducing energy costs, call
Rudin.
Wilson, meanwhile, said that while all churches should consider
the energy audit process, only churches with a true commitment to spend the
money and follow through on recommendations should launch the program. Churches
without such commitment are not going to recoup their investment in the form of
lower energy costs.
“If I were board chairman, I’d say, ‘Who is going to be the
champion of this project? Who will make sure we do something with this
information?’” Wilson suggested before going one step further with a
recommendation that the Center sponsor meetings of participating churches two
or three times a year to add some accountability to the process.
“You wouldn’t want to have to go to the meeting and say, ‘Well,
we haven’t done anything about this at all,’” Wilson said, adding that the
churches could share success stories and learn from each other. Such a process
would also create a “critical mass” of endorsement to take back to your congregation.
“When the benefits come clear, others might want to join in.”
The benefits often don’t come clear, at least not immediately.
Officials at the four churches that took part in “Energy Conservation in Houses
of Worship” can’t yet put dollar amounts on those benefits for a variety of
reasons, including the fact that such factors as “degree days” and varying
building usage must be considered in any valid comparison. Call it the “apples
to apples” effect.
Nevertheless, church leaders do indeed see benefits.
At Third Christian Church – where the congregation has been
wrestling with the issue of maintaining a very large building with a smaller
congregation that never blossomed after the church’s move in 1963 out of
downtown – the energy audit helped focus the issue of survival itself.
The energy audit, Rev. Briley said, “is one of the early tools
that got us jump-started, that let us know there are people out there to give
us help. We really are grateful to the Center for making available people to help
us.”
At Roberts Park, Wheeler remains equally enthusiastic.
“Andy Rudin is unbiased, knowledgeable and pleasant,” Wheeler
said. “He knows so much about steam and water systems – and he can communicate
effectively with common people in ways they can understand.
Calling the energy audit “the greatest thing that’s happened to
Roberts Park in a long time,” Wheeler repeated his endorsement for any church.
“It’s not just for older churches,” he said. “It’s like buying a computer –
tomorrow it’s outdated.
Even a church built four or five years ago could learn a lot.”
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Questions for Reflection
• What questions does this article prompt for you?
• What does energy conservation have to do with the mission
and/or ministry of your congregation?
• What is your sense of how well your congregation conserves
energy?
• What percentage of your congregation’s budget is spent on
utilities?
• How are energy efficiency issues addressed in your
congregation?
• Who are the people with whom energy efficiency issues
should/could be discussed?
• What energy efficiency strategies has your congregation
implemented in the past year?
The Indianapolis Center for Congregations is happy to meet with
you about any issues the questions above (or others) raise about improving
energy efficiency in your congregations.
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Learn More:
Resources for Energy Conservation from the Congregational
Resource Guide
The mission of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations is to
assist Greater Indianapolis area congregations in finding and using the very
best resources available to address the practical challenges they face. This
resource list was developed to supplement a workshop, Energy Conservation in
Houses of Worship, sponsored by the Center and led by Andrew Rudin and Inspired
Partnerships, a Chicago-based not- for-profit organization that assists
congregations in the care and maintenance of their older buildings.
Inspired Partnerships recommends the following resources.
Cruz, Michael, and Neal A Vogel. Systems in Houses of Worship.
Information Series #64. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic
Preservation and Inspired Partnerships, 1992. This
25-page booklet explains the nature of various types of heating
and electrical systems and describes how to make a number of specific repairs.
Contains a section on contracting for repairs, as well as
maintenance schedules for various HVAC systems. (To obtain copies, contact
Inspired Partnerships at 312.294.0077, Email: info@inspiredpartnerships.org)
Holohan, Dan. The Lost Art of Steam Heating. Bethpage, NY: Dan
Holohan Associates, Inc., 1992. This 296-page book is the finest
book available on steam heating. It is highly entertaining too.
It covers everything from the basics of steam heating to more
complex issues that assist in the diagnosis of steam heating problems. (To
obtain copies, contact Dan Holohan Associates, Inc., 63 North Oakdale Ave,
Bethpage, NY 11714; Phone: 800.853.8882, Fax: 516.579.3046, Email:
mailroom@heatinghelp.com, Website: www.heatinghelp.com)
Rudin, Andrew. Energy in Houses of Worship.
Information Series # 60. Washington, D.C.: Inspired
Partnerships and National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1992.
This 17-page booklet presents a twelve-step program for reducing energy costs in
houses of worship. Discussion is illustrated with examples from successful
energy cost reduction programs in Chicago, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Arizona.
(To obtain copies, contact Inspired Partnerships: 312.294.0077, Email:
info@inspiredpartnerships.org)
These resources, and more, are also listed on the Congregational
Resource Guide at www.congregationalresources.org, a joint project of the Alban
Institute and the Indianapolis Center for
Congregations, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. Look at the
section Building Issues: Energy Efficiency or Building Issues: Building
Maintenance or do a keyword search. All of these resources are available for
borrowing from the Congregational Resource Center at Christian Theological Seminary,
a joint project of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations and Christian
Theological Seminary made possible by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Our Mission
The mission of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations is to
assist Greater Indianapolis area congregations in finding and using the very best
resources to address the practical challenges they face. The Center also
provides educational events and workshops, all focused on important practical
issues confronting congregations.
Our Staff
John Wimmer, Director
Brent Bill, Associate Director
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Timothy Beuthin, Education Director
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Janice Phillips, Administrative Assistant
Jerri Kinder, Administrative Assistant
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