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Mission & Ministry Focus Areas
Hospitality & Outreach
Welcoming & Inviting Guests from the world.
2024 Goals:
1. 6.3 ★ Door to Door flyer for special events, sermon series, or mission events. (Ongoing)
2. 3.4 ★ Create a Guest Hospitality Plan: (Invitation, Greeting Guests, Welcome gift bag, getting contact info and Following up). (In Process)
Ongoing:
– Donuts & Coffee Hospitality Table.
– Guest Welcome Bag
Guiding Question: How do we relate to our community?
– Who would miss us if this community of faith didn’t exist?
– How are we viewed by the larger community?
– How do we engage with physical local community?
– How are guests welcomed?
– How many guests returns for a subsequent visit?
– What is our guest follow-up process?
Area of Focus: Radical Hospitality
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Community & Fellowship
Caring for & supporting one another in the church.
2024 Goals
1. 6.3 ★ Start a New Women’s Fellowship Group (like United Methodist Women (Women in Faith))
2. 4.3 ★ Small Group – Dinners maybe at people’s houses.
Ongoing:
Share and Care Cards, Communion / Visitations, Prayer Chain (Phone, Text, & GroupMe), Providing a bereavement meal or reception, Meal Train after major surgeries / Birth of a Child
Guiding Question: How do we relate to one another?
– How do we care and support one another?
– How are people cared for in our congregation?
– How can we support one another in times of need?
– How can we support nurture those who are disconnected?
– Do you have an intentional prayer ministry?
Area of Focus: Nurture and Caregiving, Supporting one another in Christian Love
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Mission & Service
Serving God’s Mission in the World.
2024 Goals
1. 5.1 ★ Announce on the website all of the Mission & Service things we do. To involve the community. (Completed)
2. 4 ★ Children/ Adult Volunteer at Regional Food Bank. (Completed)
3. 3.3 ★ Circle of Care Support (Foster care Diaper Drive, Children’s Clothing Drive). (Completed)
4. 3.2 ★ Monthly Game Night / Meal.
5. .3 ★ Recycle plastic ware and cups at church meals. (Completed)
Ongoing:
Reading Buddies (At Kirkland Elementary), Host Community Events Like: Easter Egg Hunt, Back to School Bash, Trunk or Treat. Blessing Box / Free Little Library, Helping Hands Fund, Warm Fuzzy’s, Skyline Food /Clothing Drive, World Service Mission Blankets.
Guiding Question: How do we serve God’s Mission?
How do we transform the world?
– Does your congregation offer me opportunities to exercise my faith through Christian service? Or ministries of social justice?
– When was the last time our church went on a mission trip?
Area of Focus: Proclaiming Christ in Word and Deed, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, Extravagant Generosity, Holiness of Heart and Living, Acts of Compassion and Justice.
Education & Discipleship
Engaging Scripture & Growing in Christ.
2024 Goals
1. 11 ★ Hire Children/ youth director. (Completed)
2. 1.1 ★ Financial fraud seminar.
3. 1.1 ★ Lock-in with outside activities.
4. .2 ★ Combine Tween/youth w/ another church.
5. .2 ★ Involve children in counting noisy offering.
6. 0 ★ Camp out for Kids / Families.
7. 0 ★ CPR Training / First Aid.
Ongoing:
Vacation Bible School, Send Kids to Church Camp, Theology on Tap, Offer a variety types of Bible Studies (Advent/Lent Studies).
Guiding Question: How do we relate to God?
How do we help people grow in Christ?
– In what ways are you inviting people in each stage of their faith – journey to practice the means of grace?
– How are you developing your congregational leadership?
– How does your church make disciples for Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world?
Area of Focus: Practicing the Means of Grace, Christian Education, (including Sunday School), Christian Spiritual Formation: Small Groups, Prayer, Bible Study, Fasting, Gift and Leadership Discernment; Acts of Devotion.
Other Items
Trustees
Maintaining the physical church building.
2024 Goals
1. 8 ★ Redo Playground. (Completed)
2. 4 ★ Fix Bell Tower Roof.
3. 1 ★ New Phone System (with Caller ID). (Completed)
4. 1.2 ★ Fix heat in women’s bathrooms. (Completed)
5. .2 ★ Outside Gathering Space. (In Process)
6. .2 ★ Fix Backyard Sheds. (Completed)
7. .1 ★ Fix Sanctuary ceiling. (Completed)
8. 0 ★ Ramp to annex building (Completed)
9. 0 ★ Finish replacing light bulbs LED. (Completed)
10. 0 ★Replace Thermostats (to Wifi Enabled). (In Process)
Worship & Spirituality
Giving thanks to God. Praying and seeking guidance from God.
Guiding Question: How do we relate to God?
– How can our worship reflect what the root word liturgy means: The Work of the People?
– Is there a need or desire to explore other worship opportunities (Like: Thursday Midday Prayer Service, evening worship, contemplative worship, or contemporary worship)?
Area of Focus: Passionate and Participatory Worship
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Sparks of Innovation
Have you ever wondered how other people worship? Or new ideas about engaging the the world around us.
Like one church that meets at a dinner, another that has an artist paint in the sanctuary each week during worship. Or another that connects with unchurched people at what they call Bible & Beer. And then there is Cowboy Church and Biker Church. The main thing that unifies these churches is that their mission is leading the way.