Congregational Development Campaigns

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Two KVO member congregations - Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish of Skowhegan and First Congregational Church (U.C.C.) of Waterville - carried out successful Congregational Development Campaigns in 2004-2005. These campaigns centered around an 8-week program of one-to-one relationship building that created or strengthened hundreds of relationships within the congregations, developed new leaders for church and community life, and surfaced new energy and commitment to act on shared interests discovered through this relationship-building process.

On January 16th, 2005, both churches kicked off their campaigns with energetic meetings of 115 Notre Dame parishioners and 36 First Congregational members respectively. The highlight of the meeting was the one-to-one selection, when everyone put their name in the hat and then drew out the name of someone to do a one-to-one with in the coming week. This process was repeated every Sunday at each campaign meeting, and by the end of the 8 weeks the two congregations had done more than 1,200 individual meetings..

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Pictures from the previous campaigns are below. Click on the picture to view a larger version.

	115 parishioners of Notre Dame de Lourdes in Skowhegan gather on January 16th for the kick-off meeting of their 8-week relationship-building campaign.
	Sr. Claudette leads a training at Notre Dame on the three C's of a one-to-one meeting: Equal Conversation, Connection, and Commitment.
	Members of Notre Dame's "Team of the Week" let their lights shine during the faith reflection at their February 6th campaign meeting
	Members of First Congregational Church (U.C.C.) of Waterville set up one-to-one meetings with each other after their February 27th campaign meeting.