So You Want to Repurpose Church Property?
Embracing Context, Vision and Community

Repurposing church property effectively is more than just a real estate transaction to make more money. If you are looking to repurpose, there are several necessary elements required to see a successful effort come to pass. These elements include identifying your leaders’ purpose, knowing your congregation's passions/gifts/personality, hearing the community’s voice, discerning vision, making a congregational commitment and collaborating with people and organizations in your community. Skipping any of these elements might lead you to inadvertently surrender God’s vision for the community to other interests. 

Join the Rev. Joe Daniels and leaders from Emory UMC in Washington, D.C., as they share their story of going from a part-time appointment and a congregation that was presumed dead to a revitalized congregation that facilitated the construction of a $60 million multi-use building project with 99 units of affordable housing. Even though God’s dream for your community and the resulting project may have a different missional focus, the process of preparing for development is the same. Many congregational leaders leave this half-day experience inspired to move into fresh possibilities and God-sized imagination.

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The agenda includes:

10 a.m.      Context, Catching Vision and Connecting with Community 
12 p.m.      Working lunch with congregational teams 
12:45         Building Tour
1:15 p.m. Q&A