Growing, Loving, Sharing, Serving and Celebrating!
These five words are Abiding Love!
In every Newsletter, every bulletin, on our web site and soon – on some of our walls, these five words will remind us of our Vision and Mission Statements. Everything that we do and say – should point to those special words. So often I find myself in a meeting or working on something and I wonder, “Where is God in this?” or “How does this further our mission?” We may decide to let some things go because they are merely not important to our vision and mission. We may decide to add some things because they will make our work for the vision and mission better! As I take on this new role as Senior Pastor, I find that I’m having to pay attention to some different things. For instance – Membership Roles.
I think ‘membership roles’ can be counter to our mission as we worry too much about how many members we ‘really’ have or how many contributed or communed. I don’t’ like counting and labeling! But then evaluating has to be a part of those five words. If we never evaluate how we are doing, then there is no accountability. We are going to begin working on those pesky ‘membership roles’ and we are going to take a real hard look at how we are doing – according to our own plan. Please, help us to ask the right questions and do the most work— for in that we will be ‘Growing, Loving, Sharing, Serving and Celebrating’!
Pastor Lynnae
