What Your Unified Board Has Done

Last night, we met for our first meeting of the unified Session and Deacons of our Church.  We started something new.  Uh oh.

It was the deliberate and direct implementation of our Vision as a church, to become a Neighborhood in the Kingdom of God.  We focused on two things of particular note. 

 

The first was a ‘how to’ on creating Strategies for implementing our Vision.  They will provide us with plans, with focus, with compelling ways and means to mobilize our church to do Jesus’ plan for us.

The second piece was to begin to strategize.  What grand objectives?  What would we focus on?  What directions would we move in to become a Neighborhood in God’s Kingdom?  That answer came in three broad considerations.

1.      How do we, among the people already in this Neighborhood, advance God’s Spirit to see the Jesus increasing in their lives?

2.      How do we build a place where we would want to invite our friends to worship and participate with us?

3.      Among those who do not worship with us any longer, could we go back and speak to them, to see what drew them away, to see what lessons we could learn?

What follows from here is to focus on the systems that make up a church.  We are going to define those systems, realizing that they are already at work as we ‘do church’, create strategies to improve them, piece by piece, and transform the gift of our church for the community that surrounds us.

There is something wonderful to be done here.