Cultural Engagement
Cultural Engagement is relationships with diverse individuals, cultures, and ideas that result in evangelism, dialogue, application, and service that are biblical, courageous, and compassionate.
SMART Goals
SPECIFIC
Personal Goal:
I will create weekly social media posts that engage with culture through a biblical lens on my personal account.
Ministry Goal:
I will get involved with an elementary school to learn more about the community by April 1st.
MEASURABLE
Personal Goal:
I will post 5 a week.
Ministry Goal:
Schedule a meeting with faculty and create two goals that help me engage more.
ACHIEVABLE
Personal Goal:
I will use Canva templates and engage with culture through the biblical lens.
Ministry Goal:
Use church contacts
RELEVANT
Personal Goal:
This will help me understand, engage, and impact the people that I can not directly contact or have conversations with.
Ministry Goal:
This goal is relevant because one of our goals is to be more engaged with our community as a church.
TIME-BASED
Personal Goal:
By Oct 1st, I will have consistently posted twice a week. By Feb 1st, I will post 4 times a week. By April 1st, I will post 5 times a week.
Ministry Goal:
By Nov 1st, I will meet with faculty and create goals. By April 1st, I would have completed those goals.
Our Services
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Reflection
For my competence in cultural engagement, I am submitting my Instagram account and folder with different things I either received or did with the school system, which demonstrates how important it is to be in the school system and how not to be afraid of what people will say to you on social media. I want to be the type of person who does not hold in their faith but speaks boldly. I want to be the type of pastor who doesn’t wait for people to come to the church, but the church will come to them. I chose these things because I saw that I was comfortable in the four walls of my church and fired up about preaching the word, but when I step out, I am timid, and I wanted to break free from that.
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Reflection
As I developed and demonstrated cultural engagement, I learned that the people around me wanted me to put up more content, but because of my own insecurities and fears, I did not post the things I was working on. I have a bad habit of comparing myself to other people’s content despite friends and family encouraging me. It shows that this is an area that God wanted to expose in me and allow Him in more. What I learned about the schools is that they will do anything and everything to have more churches involved in the school system. Many of them are believers and want to get their kids hope and a way to connect with God.
3
Reflection
As a result of the experiences documented by these artifacts, I will continue to develop in cultural engagement by not getting in over my head. I will say that I started getting posts together, but I should have adjusted my goal much sooner. I did absolutely nothing on social media, and I had people wanting more content and encouragement from me. The one thing I will say about communicating with the school system is that it’s much easier than I thought. The goals still need to be worked on, but we have kept communication and are thinking of different ways we can help our community.