Final Report

Intern’s Final Report

a. Learning Goals

Goal: delegation, facilitation, discipleship and volunteer recruitment and development

Implementation: Cool School; Day Camp

a) I can encourage, disciple, train and empower another person to take on a role they never thought they could. I can foster in someone a sense of "hey I can do this", and the confidence to take on a leadership role of their own.

b) Please see final day camp report for specifics of volunteer recruitment

Goal: developing a personal theology/philosophy/theory of ministry based on real-world experience

Implementation: supervision, teaching, self-reflection, and reading

Result:

My current understanding personal theology/philosophy/theory of ministry based on real-world experience is best summed up in the servant-leader theories of Robert Greenleaf:

• devote themselves to serving the needs of organization members.
• focus on meeting the needs of those they lead.
• develop employees to bring out the best in them.
• coach others and encourage their self expression.
• facilitate personal growth in all who work with them.
• listen and build a sense of community.

Goal: to develop a sustainable and expandable method and methodology of ministry

Implementation: supervision, teaching, self-reflection, scheduling and journaling

Result:

I have discovered through this process that the key to a sustainable and expandable method and methodology of ministry is facilitation and delegation: to create and manage self-sustaining systems so that energies can be directed elsewhere. Major potential pitfalls: “making it look too easy”.

Goal: to learn how to mark the deepening of faith/relationship to God of others who are being transformed by Christ at work through my own ministry

Implementation: observation, supervision, self-reflection, and journaling

Result:

a) I have learned that I can help foster friendships and connections between other people. I can facilitate introductions, engage the parties in interesting conversation then gracefully withdraw, only to return in a few days to both parties to help foster and support the connection between them.

b) I can make people feel connected to a broader community - I can make them feel valued and included, needed and accepted, to the benefit of the greater whole. No matter what the personality type, I seem to be able to find a niche in any community where they will fit, feel valued and be a positive contributor to the whole.

c) I am as comfortable ministering to an elderly person in a nursing home as I am ministering to a 12-year-old girl.

Goal: coping with the demands of bi-vocational ministry

Implementation: observation/self-reflection on my experiences in balancing the demands of ‘secular’ employment and the fulfillment of the expectations of the internship

Result:

While by no means is it my preferred method to balance two full time jobs, I found ultimately that, due to the fact I was focusing “delegation” as a learning goal, I found myself with much less “leg work” to do than expected, making the balancing of the two imperatives manageable. I found that in the rare but inevitable moments when competing imperatives collided, it was my secular job that I made secondary to my deliverables in the Church. Physical fatigue was the only noticeable side effect – emotional and spiritual fatigue was not.

b. Work expectations

Worship/liturgy (specify the services the intern is expected to participate in)

To be in attendance/lead both Sunday services and at least on ‘special’ service (baptism, funeral, feast-day etc)

Result:

Expectations met.

Administration: via facilitation of deliverables

Preaching: preaching minimum 3 times throughout duration of internship (more possible)

Sermon types: 3 “biggies”/ homilies/funeral

Help develop preaching series

Result:

Expectations met.

Group Work: to facilitate and oversee cool school (Sunday morning in the summers for children)/ Day Camp

Outreach: Evangelism and community involvement

Day Camp – invitation and publicity

Result:

Expectations met. Please see day camp final report for details.

Visiting: 4 personal and 2 “phone visits” each week

Result:

Expectations met.

Special Project: Day Camp

Result

As above: Expectations met.

Others: to be negotiated

c. Particulars of Internship

1. Overall Arrangements

Duration of Internship: 3 months: may 01 2006 until aug. 01 2006.

Unsupervised Period: June 2006

Mid-Term break: June 26-28 2006

Welcome: may 07 2006

Goodbye: last Sunday in July

Accommodation: none

Work Station: flexible. Require Ethernet connection and filing cabinet

Travel Allowance: .92/km

2. Weekly Routine

Daily Start Time: 9am or earlier

Result:

Expectations met.

Daily Devotions: 9am – Andrea to lead staff devotions.

Result:

Expectations met.

Weekly Reports: due Monday before supervisory meetings

Staff Meeting: Wednesdays 10am

Result:

Expectations met.

Day off: Tuesdays

Result:

Expectations not always met. Focusing on preserving the “day off” is an ongoing learning goal.

d. Program Requirements: day-to-day pastoral presence in parish

· Administrating worship

· Orientation to the parish

· Multi-media theory

· Bi-vocational

· Funerals

· Prioritizing visitations

· Outreach/day camp

· Baptismal instruction

1. Weekly

Supervisory Hour: Wednesdays 11am

Teaching Session: Wed or Sat am

Evaluation: after day camp (Aug 02)

Verbatim: 2 due: one by may 14; possibility of doing one via msn messenger (or equivalent)

Supervisor’s expectations for written work (typed/ written, point-form/prose, deadlines etc)

Items due 2 days before supervisory time; sermon/ verbatim as assigned. Point form for reports

1. Overall

Midterm Report: May 15

Mid Term Visit with co-ordinator: Mid June

Final Report: Aug 02

Solo Report: 1^st week of July

Special Project Report: Aug 02

Verbatim/ Pastoral Incident Report:

May 15-30

July 3-23

Final Evaluation Arrangements: Aug 02; after meeting with support team

e. Modes of Communication:

staff/personal meetings

email

phone

Ways to revisit this covenant: supervisor’s hour

We have come to these agreements after a process of prayerful discussion, and we pledge ourselves to keep faith with each other in our mutual growth in ministry for God’s work.

Signed:

Andrea Brosgall ______________________________

Aug 01, 2006