| At St. Dunstan's |
At Grace |
At St. Andrew's
(Lent program) |
| suburban, ASA <100 |
downtown, ASA 150+ |
urban, 5 congregations together |
Sunday morning
between 7:30 and 10am
services |
Sunday morning/afternoon
between 10am (English)
and 1pm (Spanish) services |
Tuesday evening (5:30-7:30pm) |
| intergenerational |
not intergenerational |
partially intergenerational |
| homogeneous population |
multi-cultural
(people inadvertently offended) |
multi-cultural and multi-parish |
| only English spoken |
English and Spanish (bilingual) |
presentations in English |
developed with much input
from congregation |
introduced top-down
(staff decided) |
initial idea/format staff decided
teams created/led content |
| food an important factor |
I got bogged down in food logistics |
different churches took turns
hosting (and cooking for) an evening |
| breakfast added |
lunch replaced coffee hour |
dinner added |
created to
create critical mass |
created to integrate
two different communities |
created to continue
inter-parish cooperation |
much publicity,
starting several months before |
last-minute publicity,
misunderstandings as to what it is |
tri-fold, bulletin announcements,
buy-in from all the priests |
I knew all the participants
and congregants |
I knew most of the participants,
some of the congregants |
I knew most of the participants,
few of the overall congregants |
GIFT was less energy and
resource intensive than what
was happening before |
GIFT was more energy and
resource intensive than what
was happening before |
GIFT was not replacing any program |
more than 50% of congregation
tried GIFT at some point |
about 25% of congregation
tried GIFT at some point |
(not sure how many total congregants
exist in the combined churches) |