REV. CHIP FREED – WIDEN YOUR CHURCH’S CIRCLE THROUGH CQ COMPETENCY!
Date:
2 sessions: Thursdays, March 24 and March 31 from 6:00 p.m – 8:00 p.m. EST
The two-session interactive course will provide detailed learning about CQ, strategies to understand your own results, and then go much further to help you imagine innovative ministry in your own setting that connects with the diversity of your mission field. You’ll also gain perspective to consider whether your church’s current hospitality efforts are adequate to reach and welcome a more diverse audience, and what shifts or enhancements could be important in order to widen your circle.
It’s possible for your church or your leaders to be unaware of invisible cultural barriers. Let new CQ learning and growth, together with your team, help eliminate those — so that your congregation can live, reach and welcome a new future in the multicultural world around you!
Date:
2 sessions: Thursdays, March 24 and March 31 from 6:00 p.m – 8:00 p.m. EST
The two-session interactive course will provide detailed learning about CQ, strategies to understand your own results, and then go much further to help you imagine innovative ministry in your own setting that connects with the diversity of your mission field. You’ll also gain perspective to consider whether your church’s current hospitality efforts are adequate to reach and welcome a more diverse audience, and what shifts or enhancements could be important in order to widen your circle.
It’s possible for your church or your leaders to be unaware of invisible cultural barriers. Let new CQ learning and growth, together with your team, help eliminate those — so that your congregation can live, reach and welcome a new future in the multicultural world around you!
Date:
2 sessions: Thursdays, March 24 and March 31 from 6:00 p.m – 8:00 p.m. EST
The two-session interactive course will provide detailed learning about CQ, strategies to understand your own results, and then go much further to help you imagine innovative ministry in your own setting that connects with the diversity of your mission field. You’ll also gain perspective to consider whether your church’s current hospitality efforts are adequate to reach and welcome a more diverse audience, and what shifts or enhancements could be important in order to widen your circle.
It’s possible for your church or your leaders to be unaware of invisible cultural barriers. Let new CQ learning and growth, together with your team, help eliminate those — so that your congregation can live, reach and welcome a new future in the multicultural world around you!
Widen Your Church’s Circle—through CQ Competency!
Thursdays, March 24 and 31 6-8 p.m. Eastern
Cost: $500 per team (you may register 3 to 12 persons as your team—and if your team includes at least 10, you’ll also receive an individualized report analysis of your team’s collective CQ assessment results
Leader: Rev. Chip Freed
Senior Pastor of multi-ethnic Garfield Memorial United Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio
Mosaix Network Coach & Certified CQ trainer
What is CQ?
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a critical part of setting yourself apart in today’s increasingly diverse society and world. It’s the ability to connect with, relate to and work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds — and CQ goes beyond existing notions of cultural sensitivity and awareness. With the incredible insights from and applications of CQ, you’ll learn how to strategically use cultural differences to come up with more innovative and effective ministry across your church’s mission field.
What is the CQ Assessment?
Most cultural competence assessments focus on teaching information about different cultures. The online CQ assessment takes a different approach, based on more than twenty years of research across over 100 countries. We now know that there are four capabilities that need to be developed on your team and across your congregation in order to relate and build community effectively with people from different backgrounds and who may join you in person or online. The assessment reveals where you are and what can happen next.
What will happen in the “Widen Your Circle” two-session course?
The two-session interactive course will provide detailed learning about CQ, strategies to understand your own results, and then go much further to help you imagine innovative ministry in your own setting that connects with the diversity of your mission field. You’ll also gain perspective to consider whether your church’s current hospitality efforts are adequate to reach and welcome a more diverse audience, and what shifts or enhancements could be important in order to widen your circle.
It’s possible for your church or your leaders to be unaware of invisible cultural barriers. Let new CQ learning and growth, together with your team, help eliminate those — so that your congregation can live, reach and welcome a new future in the multicultural world around you!
About Chip Freed:
Chip Freed is the Lead Pastor at Garfield Memorial United Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Garfield Memorial Church transitioned from a 200 person homogeneous church upon Chip’s arrival in 2004 to a 1200 person multiethnic church in two Cleveland campuses where no one ethnic group comprises more than 52% of the congregation. Garfield Memorial Church has a third campus in Liberia, Africa. Chip’s first church West of Cleveland was Asbury United Methodist Church, the oldest historical black church in Lorain County. Asbury was targeted for closure with 32 active members in 1993. By 1998, the church had 400 in worship as a healthy multiethnic church
Chip has been a pioneer in the multi-ethnic church movement and helps lead on this topic at several national conferences. Chip also serves as the Director of Cohorts for the Mosaix Global Network and as Director of the Mosaix House of Studies, MDiv. Program at United Theological Seminary. Chip has Level 1 and 2 certifications in Cultural Intelligence Training (CQ) as well as in Unconscious Bias from the Cultural Intelligence Center Once upon a time, Chip served in the corporate arena as President and CEO of Mahoning Municipal Products, Inc. in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio.
Next Steps:
Register your team of 3 to 12 persons for the “Widen Your Circle” course.
BEFORE the “Widen Your Circle” course begins, each of your team members will need to take online an individual CQ assessment ($40/person, payable when you registered your team). Instructions on how to take this will be emailed to you immediately after you register your team for the “Widen Your Circle” course. (If your team registration includes 10-12 persons, you will additionally receive an individualized report analysis of your team’s overall CQ assessment results.)
You will be emailed the zoom link you will use for both sessions of the course two days prior to the course’s start. Plan to forward the course zoom link to your registered team members, or if feasible gather your team in one place to participate in each online session of the course together.
