These are the slides that I used for my Hybrid Table presentation at The Presbytery of Greater Atlanta's meeting in February, 2021. While many of these presentations may look similar, they are always updated, so be sure to look for the most recent versions.

1. An Unexpected,
Generous, and
Hybrid Table
PRESBYTERY OF GREATER ATLANTA
@breyeschow | february 20, 2021 | early on the zooms

2. SO MUCH
INFORMATION
Todays Slides
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Questions and Response
11:00 After the meeting
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3. 12 MONTH LOW
GRADE FEVER
Pandemic.
Racial reckoning.
Political upheaval.
Personal loss.
Communal journey.

4. I GOT THIS!
Immediate action!
Deep care and concern for the
people we serve.
Trying any and all things
whether or not folks asked for
them or not.
We manage the heck out of this!
Grace, patience, and
understanding abound.

5. DEAR GOD
We overfunction.
Get overextended.
Feel overwhelm.
Try not to panic.
We Crash.
We commit to self-care.
REPEAT

6. DREAMING
Deeply embrace this time as a
real new normal.
Reflection on how you have
modeled adaptive leadership
and practices.
Begin to reimagine and dream
about the future.

8. CHAT
TWEET
SHARE
What keeps you grounded?
How are you feeling today?
How is your community doing?
@breyeschow | @atlpcusa

9. “Once online community is no longer
the only option for you and your
congregation, will have the
willingness, energy, and capacity to
birth, curate, nurture, and sustain a
long-term digital space?”
or more succinctly put, “What now?”

10. Exodus 36:1-7

11. “Let Bezalel, Oholiab, and every
other skilled worker whom God has
given skill, ability, and knowledge for
the work of building the sanctuary do
all that God has commanded.”
Exodus 36:1-7

12. Moses then called together Bezalel,
Oholiab, and every skilled person
whom God had given skill and who
was eager to come and do the work.
Exodus 36:1-7

13. Moses gave them all the gift
offerings that the Israelites had
contributed to the work on the
sanctuary. They kept bringing Moses
spontaneous gifts, morning after
morning.
Exodus 36:1-7

14. Finally, all the skilled workers
building the sanctuary left their work
that they were doing one by one to
come and say to Moses, “The people
are contributing way too much
material for doing the work that God
has commanded us to do.”
Exodus 36:1-7

15. So Moses issued a command that
was proclaimed throughout the
camp: “Every person should stop
making gift offerings for the
sanctuary project.”
Exodus 36:1-7

16. So the people stopped bringing
anything more because what they
had already brought was more than
enough to do all the work.
Exodus 36:1-7

17. Exodus 36:1-7
Sanctuary, moveable and holy
Workers, skilled and present.
Offerings, more than enough.

18. There is no silver lining to this season
of our life and word, but we have
discovered where our abundance lies
— and expanded experience of the
gathered Body of Christ.
An Expanded Table
The Hybrid Church

19. We have stood behind, storied, holy,
physical tables and proclaimed the
abundant and expansive nature of
the Body of Christ.
We now compelled to act, live, and
love as if we believe this to be true.
The Reimagined Table.

20. Exodus 36:1-7
Sanctuary, moveable and holy
Workers, skilled and present.
Offerings, more than enough.

21. A Reimagined Table
A Sanctuary, moveable and holy
With workers, skilled and present.
And offerings, more than enough.

22. A Reimagined HYBRID Table
A sanctuary space and experience
where, whether one engages in
person or remote, they have
essentially the same experience.

23. THE WORKERS
AND OFFERINGS
TO BUILD THIS
NEW SPACE ARE
ALREADY
PRESENT HERE.

24. REIMAGINING OVER
REPLICATION
Take advantage of
the platform to
enhance the
worship experience.
Question?
If you changed
sanctuary seating from
pews to chairs what
would change?
How does your space
impact how you
worship or gather in
person or online?

25. REIMAGINED
EXPERIENCE
● Embrace accessibility to and
possibilities for connection.
● Ask what is central and vital.
● Simplified and save.
● Increase use of visual
content: video, fonts, guests
● Reconfigure physical space.
● Think DJ and Curator.

26. DECENTERING OF
GEOGRAPHIC PLACE
Place is defined by
theological, cultural
expression, and
beliefs.
Question?
How do you talk about
the “space” in which
you gather? Do you
infer that digital space
is not as “real” as the
physical one or simply
another place where
you happen to gather
in community?

27. DECENTERED
SPACE
● Resist the desire and inertia
to make the physical location
the ideal or “real”experience.
● Lead from various locations.
● Honor Expansive Language:
around space and location.

28. INVITATION TO
LEADERSHIP
Engagement and
participation open up
when geographic
boundaries are let go.
Question?
Are there recent grads,
relocated seniors, or
new connections are
showing a desire to
become more
engaged and
connected to the
community?

29. UNLEASHED
LEADERSHIP
● Invite and and value new and
remote voices into shared
leadership roles.
● Engage what it means to be a
non-geographic “member”
● Empower Tech Deacons

30. ENGAGEMENT OF
THE COMMUNITY
Connect by
theology and/or
geography creating
community.
Question
Can you create
enough community
connection points
where having
someone solely
in-person will cause
pause because some
may be left out.

31. INCREASED
ENGAGEMENT
● Create, invite, and support
such a lived and loving
community, that when you
begin conversations about
this new “space,” people have
no choice but to yearn to
include those who are gather
from other spaces.

32. INCREASED
ENGAGEMENT
● Measure/Track engagement.
● Honor affinities: lifestages,
curiosities, and locations.
● Curate diverse spaces:
online, in-person, hybrid.
● Create opportunities for
intimate/casual interactions.
● Leverage this time to play.

33. TECHNOLOGICAL
CAPACITY
Determine realistic
ability to embrace
the technological
learning curve.
Question?
More than zoom, do
you have the staffing
or lay capacity to
handle streaming,
video, Customer
Relations Management
(CRM), and other tech
needs?

34. COURAGEOUS
INVESTMENT
● Research and Liberate Ideas
● Make wise tech upgrades
● Help staff live into strengths
● Stretch, Train, Practice
Budget clear time expectations
are indicators of commitment.
Don’t try to be techno-fancier
than you really are. BE YOU!

35. As churches make post-pandemic plans,
my greatest hope is that current members
for whom the church has bent backwards
to make sure they stay connected, will see
the importance of shifting some of that
energy to connecting with and caring for
those "outside" the church.
The Reimagined Table.

36. A Reimagined Table
A Sanctuary, moveable and holy
With workers, skilled and present.
And offerings, more than enough.

37. LET US PRAY

38. RESOURCES
Slides
www.slideshare.net/breyeschow
Hybrid Process and Survey
bit.ly/BRCHybridWorshipProcess
Zoom Faith on Facebook
facebook.com/groups/zoomfaith
BRC Contact
@breyeschow on all the things
breyeschow@gmail.com