1. WELCOME!
Practice Discipleship Coach Training
January 2013
Internet Code:
Login to “Hyatt Meeting”
Code: ELC1

2. Practice Discipleship Team
• Vision Team:
– Team Leader: Catherine Anderson
– Network Director: Todd Buegler
– Educator Rep: Terri Elton
– Writer Rep: Jeremy Myers
– Partners Rep: ELCA Staff Person
– Coach Rep: Tammy Jones West

3. Practice Discipleship Team
• Head Coaches:
– Lisa Kramme (Synods 1A – 4A)
– Eric Carlson (Synods 4B – 6E)
– Tammy Jones West (Synods 6F – 9F)

4. Practice Discipleship Team
• Writers:
– Terri Elton (Luther Seminary)
– Hans Wiersma (Augsburg College)
– Nathan Frambach (Wartburg Seminary)
– Rozella White (Emory Center for Pastoral Services)
– Colleen Windham-Hughes (Cal. Lutheran University)
– Heather Hansen (Texas Lutheran University)
– Jeremy Myers (Augsburg College)

5. Practice Discipleship Team
• 63 Practice Discipleship Coaches

6. History of
Practice Discipleship
• 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering
• Equip adult leaders for faith formation with
young people
• PD1 Focus: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

7. Faith Practices are Key
“…teenagers learn to articulate faith by
hearing adults articulate theirs…(yet)
American adults may be no more
religiously articulate than their children.
The solution is…to look for places where
adults can move beyond their comfort
zones and talk about their faith in
teenagers’ presence.”
- Kenda Creasy Dean, Almost Christian

8. PD1 Numbers
• Over 10,000 adult leaders trained
• Networking in synods
• Faith Formation:
“I no longer feel like a hypocrite saying
that I follow Jesus, but having no idea
how to do that.”

9. Phase 2
• Movement of the Holy Spirit
• Practice  Way of Life
• Discipleship  Following Jesus
– How do we make developing leaders a way of
life for the sake of faith formation with young
people?

10. PD Structure
• Ministry of the ELCA Youth Ministry
Network
– Funded by the ELCA, Luther Seminary, NC
Synod Grant
• Focus and Curriculum
– provided in partnership with ELCA colleges
and seminaries
– “Taking Theology to Youth Ministry”

11. The key to this initiative is
YOU!

12. Question…
• What has called you – excites you – about
being part of Practice Discipleship this
year?

13. Goals for Training
• Network
• Curriculum
• Develop a Strategy
• Collective Wisdom

14. Frequently Used Terms
• PD, PD1, PD2
• ELCA Youth Ministry Network
– Extravaganza
– Regional Facilitators
• Webinar, Face to Face Trainings
• Coach Update
• Go To Meeting
• PD2 Coaches Website
• Practice Discipleship Website
• Stakeholders
• ELCA: Churchwide, Regions, Synods, SYMBOL

15. Purpose Statement
Practice Discipleship Initiative
The Practice Discipleship Initiative fosters faithful,
thoughtful and intentional leaders in congregations who
follow Jesus in their daily lives.
The Practice Discipleship Initiative will:
Educate.
Train leadership to accompany young people on their faith journey.
Connect.
Develop partnerships to strengthen faith formation opportunities for and
with young people.
Renew.
Gather leaders for mutual support and encouragement in ministry.

16. Coach Responsibilities
• Develop a Team
• Communication
– Publicity
– Stakeholders
• Lead Trainings