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Hey, it's Duane. I would like to get more comments, suggestions, and concerns about the whole service project/mission/financial goals thing from you.
I desperately need your feedback for two reasons;
1. I know that I am not objective in this matter.
2. We ran out of time last Sunday.
Please post your comments anonymously. Let your voice be heard here. Jenn has opened up the blog so that we have the ability to post anonymously, however, it leaves us open to spammers. So we are putting a deadline for anonymous posting of Monday 9-15.
We need to determine:
- do we want to make developing the church's property off of Old Freewill Rd our class project?
- what other projects would we want to take on - either as one time projects or ongoing missions?
- how do we decide? In order to keep from overextending our already overextended selves, AND be sure that everyone is able to contribute according to their talents, are there principles or key concepts that we can use to 'vet' our project ideas?
We don't want to talk the thing to death, but it's important that everyone can express their concerns and ideas freely, so this seemed a good forum. Click on the word 'comment' below this post, and you will be taken to a screen where you can type your comments. You can click the Anonymous button to leave your post un-named. Then you can come back at any time and read the other comments that were given.
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I believe that we need to determine the GOAL of our service/mission work before we can choose what works in which to be involved. In order to do this, I believe that we need to have more discussion about this subject. Is our goal to: bring people into our church?, engage members of the church who are currently inactive?, begin our own mission/ministry?, would that be within the church or outside the church?. There are just so many questions to be answered. Of course, our ultimate goal is to bring more people to know Christ. We just need to determine the best way for our time starved group to achieve this.
I think having a 'mission statement' or other guiding principal (which is like a goal in that it's guiding, but not like a goal, in that it's ongoing) is a good idea. I think we've identified two main questions:
Inside church family/outside church family
and
begin new program/support existing program
I think the answers to those will be clearer when we determine what we're trying to accomplish - do good work in the world? Raise money? Encourage new members? Can we do these all in one project?
Perhaps we should set aside two class sessions to work through this.
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