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Report of the Strategic Planning Commission -- Jan. 20, 2010

Report of the Strategic Planning Commission

For the 41^st Annual Convention

Of the Diocese of Central Florida

January 30, 2010

Church growth: don’t neglect simple, ‘low-tech’ measures

By the Rev. Canon George Conger

Strategic Planning Commission update 10/20/09

The Diocese’s of Central Florida’s Strategic Planning Commission, mandated by the 2009 Diocesan Convention, has been meeting monthly for much of the year. The commission, led by the Rev. Rob Lord, rector of All Saints’, Winter Park, is working to craft a working plan that would share with all members of the diocese the core values and theological vision of Bishop Howe’s April 15th, 2008 Pastoral Letter to the Diocese.

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