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Alive in Christ!
Vibrancy, Variety, Vision
From March 1, 2009-May 31, 2010
9:00 a.m. Traditional Worship Service
10:00 a.m. Christian Growth
(September through May)
11:00 a.m. Contemporary
Worship
Service
Strategic
Planning
Log
(beginning with the most recent and
proceeding back in time):
Mission Discernment Team
Members
Upcoming Discernment Team Updates
On June
7 & 14, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., Session's Mission
Discernment Team met with members of the congregation
at which status reports were
given and discussion was encouraged regarding the
new Sunday morning schedule.
Discernment Team Meeting with Leadership
The congregation was invited to
attend any of five discussion times January
10, 11 (before/after worship), and 18 (before/after
worship), 2009. These sessions included discussion of the
new Sunday morning schedule which began March 1, 2009. Fifty-seven
people attended.
Click here to see the Team's
Recommendations.
Mission Discernment Team Meetings
Meetings of the Discernment Team, together with other key
stakeholders, were held on December 8 & 15, 2008 and January 3, 2009 to
discuss implementation of the church's vision. These meeting are always open to all.
The Project Team for coordination of the two Sunday morning worship services
will be chaired by Bonnie Jorgenson and Debbie Sauer.
Presentation to Congregation
On November 23, 2008, at the Congregational Meeting, an update on
the strategic planning process was presented. The materials for this
presentation are available by
clicking here.
November Session Meeting
At its November meeting, our Session continued work on these important matters.
Session
adopted the new Vision Statement (above), adopted a process for
continued planning and agreed to work on four strategic initiatives.
Glenn Simmonds was added to the Discernment Team to provide continuity with
the labors of the former ad hoc discernment team.
Leadership Gathering
Session members and other leaders of the
church, about 30 people, gathered on November 1, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. to begin discussions regarding long range plans for the church.
This meeting was facilitated by Jeff Thompson who blessed our
congregation with the gift of his time and talents. All interested
members of the congregation were invited to attend.
The leadership gathering began with prayer
and a devotional. Participants then listed the many strengths,
opportunities, challenges and risks facing our church. The
participants were then divided into five smaller groups in order to discuss
and write down their vision for our church in three years. The
combined vision statement which resulted from the meeting is above.
The group also spent time brainstorming and
discussing strategic initiatives for the church. In order to rank the
proposed strategic initiatives, participants were later asked to vote for
their top three.
To guide and steer further
progress of the strategic planning process, those at the leadership
gathering created an ongoing
Mission Discernment Team.
At that stage, it
consisted of Bonnie Jorgenson; John Kliewer; Larry Lehner; Debbie
Sauer; Greg Sandbulte and Claudia Welty (chair). John Kliewer eventually
left the team. Glenn Simmonds, Janet Stone (Worship Committee Chair), and
Mary Lou Tarvers (Outreach Committee Chair) later joined the team.
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