What did I do to make it happened? I called an advisory committee and together we explored the ministry opportunities embedded within the community. We collaboratively worked to imagine what it will take to become a hospitable and welcoming community church. To this end, we set a couple of actions steps to be taken.

First, we decided to create a new ministry structure that is instrumental in our preparation, both mentally and structurally, to provide space, attention, and nurture to visitors and strangers and turn them into friends.

Then, we introduced some innovation in our worship habits. For example, our worship services are now lead jointly by youth and elderly leaders, lay and clergy ministers, female and male preachers. It is now cross-generational, gender sensitive, and clerically inclusive.

What happened in the aftermath of the project implementation? I discern several transformations and I see signposts that are symptomatic of transformational learning. As a whole, the church has now a clearer awareness of what the mission of the church ought to be in this very place and time. I also observe more openness to the diversity brought by the generations and subcultures alive and at work in the congregation.

For the practice of ministry, such an experiment of leading to a congregational change results into the discovery of a ministry model where academic settings and ecclesiastic neighbors serve each other rather than anathematizing each other. The findings of this research also imply that ministry in the postmodern mindset need to take into account the change in the cultural environment that engenders a new context to the church's ministry.