Listening, presence, and relationships shaped by the love of Christ.
In development · Stories, reflections, and selected evidence will be added as this part of the portfolio takes shape. The prompts below guide that work.
Recall a conversation when listening changed your understanding of someone.
What challenged your assumptions about care, boundaries, or reconciliation?
What does faithful presence look like in your ministry today?
A place to trace learning, practice, conviction, and the work of helping others grow. These reflection prompts do not represent a completed assessment.
What Scripture, mentors, study, or early experiences formed your understanding of relationship?
Where have you put that understanding into practice? Describe a specific decision, habit, or ministry responsibility.
How has this quality become a conviction you value? Describe what changed and what remains difficult.
How are you helping others grow in this area? Include feedback and evidence of their development.
Working themes for gathering stories and evidence. These are editorial prompts, not official NAD descriptor wording.
Add a specific experience, your role, what you learned, and supporting evidence or feedback.
Add a specific experience, your role, what you learned, and supporting evidence or feedback.
Add a specific experience, your role, what you learned, and supporting evidence or feedback.
Spaces for a few meaningful examples. Evidence has not yet been selected for these cards.
To be added: context and date, your contribution, a verified artifact, and a reflection on what this experience shows.
To be added: context and date, your contribution, a verified artifact, and a reflection on what this experience shows.
To be added: context and date, your contribution, a verified artifact, and a reflection on what this experience shows.
The exact Relationship descriptors and Level 1–4 outcomes will be added after verification against the current NAD / Georgia-Cumberland Conference handbook used for this portfolio.
Until then, the practice themes and reflection prompts on this page are drafting aids, not quotations from the official rubric.
Reflection to be added: What is your next step in relationship? Name one practice to develop, someone who can offer feedback, and a way to recognize growth.