Here were some of the ideas generated in my group on Sunday:
Benefits of study: increase in communication, setting for feedback, different groups one objective, place to rest and study, unified, bearing each other's burdens
What hindrances do we need to throw off: burden of past, worldly view, financial worries, a "we can't" attitude
Next step ideas:
not venue for activity but for relationships
setting for being loved, growing, and being honest with themselves and others
keep it real
focus on Scriptures
community music club
objective evaluation process to get honest feedback
spiritual gifts evaluation
hurts/healing ministry
youth participate/lead services
deliberate intergenerational activity in VBS
opportunities on other days
outreach training/specific ministry training
becoming model not just voice
On Saturday we will try to put all of our groups' input together and come up with a coherent next step
3 comments:
From Louisemarie's group
1. What benefits have you seen for Peace and you as an individual from this group study?
Peace: More dialogue among members (folks) about Peace Lutheran
Ask what our elders need, and help them (intermittently)
Yourself: A chance for introspection; find my predjudices
Learning more about His word Need more time for Bible study; I want to lean more
Need more Bible study,
2. Growing in Christ: Hebrews 12: 1-3 - What hinders us individually and corporately
Individually: Stumbling blocks set by the Bible
Health
Work schedules
Time
Change of the weather
Corporately:
Togetherness
More groups – students at individual homes
We tried that before mentality
3. What should be the next step for Peace? What needs to stay the same and what needs to change?
Stay.Keep:
Tradtional service 4X
Lenten/Advent services
Sharing the Peace
Prayer Path 4X – increase to 2X per year
Celebrate Recovery
Weekly communion
Ladies Tea
Easter Cross
Change/Add:
Women’s breakfast
More communication between members – telecare
Open church for prayer one morning per week – 3 people taking turns
Unlock the parking lot gate on Sunday
Special prayers for members – birthday, anniversary, baptismal anniversary etc. monthly
Move morning service to 8:30 a.m.
Food distribution – with volunteers once per month
Young people presenting part of the service, not necessarily just the readings
Put the score to the songs not in hymnal on the screens
One Sunday per month, use common cup for communion
Church service should be a electronic game free zone
More fundraisers to help finance our Church 2X
Periodic revival outreach services to the community
Assign members to VBS participants for follow-up
Assign older youth to partner with younger members
Evening prayer service on Sundays – specifically for request of the people
4. What do you see as the single vision/goal for Peace? From the vantage point of this visioning study, what clear(er) picture of where we want to be can we see? What would our direction look/sound like? Something that could easily be described to a stranger by any member of the congregation.
Looks like:
Joyful 3X
Peaceful 3X
Friendtly 2X
Young people and adults working together at activities
Reverance for God in the services by both youth and adults
Encourage youth participation
Lots of people participating (helping0 with activities
Calling new members and praying for them
Members investing themselves in the lives of others – meals, rides, assistance, visits.
Sounds like:
Choir: more music from a choir - 2X
Increase songs/music on a regular basis
Lots of music and praise
Encourage occasional songs for the gifted
Laughter
Encourage VBS children and their families to attend special services
5. What would you be willing commit to for the next steps in terms of time?
* Small groups meeting 45 minutes on Sunday morning every week/every other week - 5X - Weekly Bible study
* Small group meeting outside of the Sunday timeframe – None
* Other - None
6. Anything else you want to add:
One Sunday a month, have one service followed by a pot luck
Dinner groups
Monthly community outreach, like a food bank day
encourage children and family worship where children will sing, act and play 4 X a year (quarterly.)
PYRO - March 31, 2009
Led by Juliette
I borrowed Louisemarie's idea to have them write ideas on post-its. :)
I'll indicate which answers were mine just fyi.
Benefits from the Vision Study:
- enlightened us on what's going on around us
- Understanding, connection, sense of openness
- learning to see things from an adult's point of view
- youth interaction with different generations through game night and cleaning the youth room. Got to see how alike & different people of different generations are. The church is becoming a real church united and understanding of generations.
- (my answers) Learning how generations can interact and learn from each other, and spending time with the PYRO group and getting to know them better
Next Step for Peace:
- Finding more ways to interact with the community (try to get more people to Him). The question is how?
- Using connections to affect others (VBS), involving youth into the sermon and lessons.
- Doing something big together (wall mural?)
- Continue doing inter-generational activities (game nights, etc.)
- (my answer) Prayer partners (adults and youth)
Vision/Goal of Peace:
- F.U.N. (Patrick had some song that explained what the letters stand for...something like "fellowship," "U and me," and I forget what the 'N' was for.
- Helping influence people's lives through Jesus
- Being different to attract new members (in a good way).
- (my answer) Being a family of all ages, growing in faith together.
UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST: WEEK 9 – TAKING THE NEXT STEP
Hebrews 12:1-3.
1. What benefits have you seen for Peace and you as an individual from this group study?
Peace:
•Participation in a single focus by the majority of active members
•Thinking about the direction of the church in terms of what am I doing
•Synergy of ideas from multiple small groups
•Got to know others that we may have only a handshaking relationship with
•Dialogue among members (folks) about Peace Lutheran
•Ask what our elders need, and help them (intermittently)
Yourself:
•Thinking about the direction of the church in terms of what am I doing
•Got to know others that we may have only a handshaking relationship with
•Look for opportunities to play out the challenge from the weekly study - Youth
•Aware of how the Youth might feel and how to include them
•Aware of how adults feel and how to resolve fears and connect with Youth
•A Chance for introspection; find my prejudices
•Learning more about His word
•Need more time for Bible study; I want to learn more
•Need more Bible study,
2. Growing in Christ: Hebrews 12: 1-3 - What hinders us individually and corporately?
Individually:
•It might mean giving up my pet program or idea
•I may not like what my pet program is replaced with at all or not as much
•Stumbling blocks set by the Bible
•Health
•Work schedules
•Time
•Change of the weather
Corporately:
•We might not look like Lutherans Togetherness
•More groups – students at individual homes
•We tried that before mentality
3. What should be the next step for Peace? What needs to stay the same and what needs to change?
Stay:
•At least one traditional service per month
•Traditional service 4X
•Lenten/Advent services
•Sharing the Peace
•Prayer Path 4X – increase to 2X per year
•Celebrate Recovery
•Weekly communion
•Ladies Tea
•Easter Cross
Change/Add:
•Multigenerational groups instead of age segregated Sunday (School) bible study
•Mid-week informal worship opportunities – with small break-out groups
•Women’s breakfast
•More communication between members – Telecare
•Open church for prayer one morning per week – 3 people taking turns
•Unlock the parking lot gate on Sunday
•Special prayers for members – birthday, anniversary, baptismal anniversary etc. monthly
•Move morning service to 8:30 a.m. 3X
•Food distribution – with volunteers once per month
•Young people presenting part of the service, not necessarily just the readings
•Put the score to the songs not in hymnal on the screens
•One Sunday per month, use common cup for communion
•Church service should be a electronic game free zone
•More fundraisers to help finance our Church 2X
•Periodic revival outreach services to the community
•Assign members to VBS participants for follow-u[
•Assign older youth to partner with younger members
Evening prayer service on Sundays –specifically for request of the people
4. What do you see as the single vision/goal for Peace? From the vantage point of this visioning study, what clear(er) picture of where we want to be can we see? What would our direction look/sound like? Something that could easily be described to a stranger by any member of the congregation.
•Our Church is a body of believers committed to creating opportunities for people to know Christ personally, especially young people both inside and outside the Congregation. We regularly create opportunities to attract young people to hear the gospel and see it working in the lives of believers at Peace.
Looks like:
•Joyful 3X
•Peaceful 3X
•Friendly 2X
•Young people and adults working together at activities
•Reverence for God in the services by both youth and adults
•Encourage youth participation
•Lots of people participating (helping0 with activities
•Calling new members and praying for them
•Members investing themselves in the lives of others – meals, rides, assistance, visits.
Sounds like:
•Choir: more music from a choir - 2X
•Increase songs/music on a regular basis
•Lots of music and praise
•Encourage occasional songs for the gifted
•Laughter
•Encourage VBS children and their families to attend special services`
5. What would you be willing commit to for the next steps in terms of time?
•Small groups meeting 45 minutes on Sunday morning every week 5X
•Every other week - 5X
•Weekly Bible study
•Small group meeting outside of the Sunday timeframe – None
•Other - None
6.Anything else you want to add:
•One Sunday a month, have one service followed by a potluck
•Dinner groups
•Monthly community outreach, like a food bank day
•Encourage children and family worship where children will sing, act and play 4 X a year (quarterly.)
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