Loren Mead, founder and past president of the Alban Institute, presents the core concepts from The Once and Future Church, his groundbreaking work, along with highlights from his important follow-up volumes Transforming Congregations for the Future and Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church, for the first time on video. Board members, strategic planning teams, congregational self-study groups, and adult classes can begin working with Mead's foundational material to develop a common understanding of the church past and present, the culture in which the church ministers today, and the shape of the new mission frontier. How did we get where we are today? What will it take for congregations to be transformed, so they can remain viable well into the 21st century? If God is calling the church to reshape itself, how do we begin? Three 25-minute sessions.