Who do you listen to when there are so many stakeholders who support you work and carry out your mission? We employ over 2000 people who serve in five different lines of service with diverse demographics. ARE (A Renewal Enterprise) was able to bring together this incredible diversity by engaging over a thousand individuals from across the spectrum of service and support. The result of this was a process that…not only sets the stage for our work together but guides the stakeholders to engage and support the mission of the organization. We are excited for the day ahead as we live into the vision that we all have claimed.
- Denver Bitner, President/CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
ARE has been instrumental to us in our growth as an organization. Your work helping us revision our mission changed the way our Board and our members see what we're doing, and has made us far more effective at accomplishing what we set out to do. Everyone involved in the process was blown away by the shared vision we didn't even know we had! I would highly recommend that other organizations invite you to lead them through a similar process.
- Justin Lee, Executive Director, GCN, North Carolina
The ARE team was truly outstanding at our large assembly. Working interactively with such a large and diverse audience, they challenged, inspired, shared and shaped vision in a most remarkable way. The energy in the room over the day and a half they were with us was heightened in a way that people six months later are still coming up to me and saying "Thank you for bringing ARE. They really made a tremendous impact." Any organization would be energized and positively refocused and recommitted if the ARE team were to lead their interactive process.
- Constance M. Kilmark, Kilmark & Associates, LLC Madison, WI
ARE will inspire your team to achieve more and then help them find the practical steps to turn that inspiration into action."
- Jim Donohue Managing Director Elsevier, Science and Technology Books Division
ARE is a treasure in our midst. In this time of uncertainty, it is good to have leaders who challenge, encourage and uplift us.
- Bishop Elaine Sauer, Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
As Glen Mar United Methodist Church prepared to relocate to a new campus, Kelly Fryer of ARE provided insightful guidance to help the congregation expand ministry to the community. By listening intently, asking probing questions, and offering objective feedback and evaluation, Kelly enabled Glen Mar's staff and leaders to better discern who we are and what we are being called to be and do.
- Rev Andy Lunt, Senior Pastor, Glen Mar United Methodist Church, Ellicott City, MD
ARE--ROCKS! For more than two years ARE has been our trusted partner in re-visioning and renewal. It has been fun and fulfilling!
- Rev Bob Beaver, Director of Missions, South Carolina Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ARE’s expertise, humour and powerful leadership enabled us to chart our course for a renewed vision - a truly remarkable and inspirational experience!!
- Pat Lovell, Synod Council Member, Eastern Synod , Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Dave Daubert and Tana Kjos offer a potent look at possible balance as well as “intentionality and purpose” for each of us – spiritual life, work, loved ones, community, self – while proclaiming the central and fundamental worth and spiritual-centeredness of all of life’s parts and, indeed, each and every one of us.
– Dr. James Gandre, Roosevelt University, Chicago
[Thanks to the ARE team] here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, nearly 2,000 people have begun a journey to reclaim vocation for an entire synod.
- Bishop Claire Schenot Burkat, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
A Renewal Enterprise! You taught us that everything we need, we have. You witnessed how changed people change churches, organizations, and the world. Thank you for the ministry of A Renewal Enterprise, you set us free to truly be In Mission for Others.
- Rev Lori Pilatzke, Director of Witness and Evangelism Ministry, Eastern Synod-Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Our church had people gather to discern what we found using the PAWN Process. One person that day who had been cut out of church life for most of his life said, “I’ve never been a part of a church that actually cared about what I thought the ministry should be doing.” … We have started down a path of love and acceptance for people that is just so great!
- Pastor Bill Eiwen, Reformation Church, Columbia, SC
Kelly Fryer gives us a clarion call to reassess our commitment to be evangelical in ways that connect it with the historical mission of the church and offers a valid protest against those who would make the word synonymous with a right-wing political ideology.
– Dr. Tony Campolo, Eastern University, Philadelphia
