BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING
OR
FINDING OUR WAY?
🌟 A Remarkable Blessing
When generosity creates new possibilities
In the last issue of the “Compassionate Accountability” newsletter, we announced that CRIC has been blessed with a 5-year series of $100,000 challenge grants. An additional blessing has been the pledge of $250,000 to establish an endowment fund. Surely, this is an idea whose time has come.
🌱 Blessings Bring Responsibility
Every new opportunity comes with new challenges
So it sounds like CRIC has it made!? Not so fast. CRIC is blessed to be a blessing, and we are still finding our way. As with most blessings, these bring significant challenges. Till now, we have been like a train, building the track as we go.
🧭 Finding Our Way Forward
Turning generosity into long-term impact
Going forward these wonderful financial blessings mean CRIC needs a 3 to 5 year strategic plan to help us in finding our way. Thanks to the thoughtful work of several board members, we are well along in that planning process.
🎯 Staying Focused on the Mission
Knowing what we are called to do… and what we are not
CRIC’s mission is to influence church governing authorities to use the best practices with clergy behavioral health issues. It is not primarily a training program. Nor is it a program for building teams to support recovery and education in a judicatory.
🤝 Learning by Doing
Every conversation helps shape the future
Being blessed to be a blessing also means we continue to learn. In April three clergy training events with Methodists, Lutherans and Episcopalians helped us in finding our way with two lessons.
- CRIC can begin connecting with governing authorities through clergy training.
- CRIC can also begin connecting to governing authorities through volunteer teams or individuals concerned with clergy recovery from behavioral health disorders.
🌳 Blessed to Be a Blessing
Growing carefully. Serving faithfully. Trusting God’s leading.
Learning these ways of connecting to church governing authorities will become increasingly important in the coming years. CRIC has been mightily blessed to be a blessing. Under God’s direction, events continue to unfold, helping us in finding our way.
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