MISSION REAL ESTATE: INVITING TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL
By: Jessica Ripper, Mission Real Estate Portfolio Manager
I have a section in my closet with clothes that I love but no longer fit me. Seeing them reminds me of important people, places and periods of my life so I’ve found it hard to let them go to make space for things that do fit me. In many ways, congregations that enter the mission real estate program go through that same struggle of discerning what aspects of its property are sacred aspects of the congregation’s identity and when to create space for something new.
Earlier this year, Canon Jeff Martinhauk and I traveled to Denver to meet with other Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies grantees to share how to effectively support congregations in identifying income-generating missional uses of their property. We left with a deeper understanding of the potential for mission real estate to transform congregations through a greater focus on revitalizing the church campus by enhancing their relationships with the surrounding community. The most critical message: the level of positive transformation congregations experience is directly related to the level of spiritual intention that goes into the congregational engagement process. Read More
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