On Wednesday evening about 50 of us gathered at the church to dream and talk about WMC and our future direction. What a great evening it was! We worshipped together and enjoyed robust discussion, lots of laughter, some inspired ideas, *Cordon Bleu* wors rolls and above all, a real sense of hope and excitement about the way forward for our church community.
We collected adjectives to describe the kind of community we want to be – some of the key words to emerge were caring, welcoming, inclusive, vibrant, Spirit-filled and joyful [or fun :)]. We affirmed our mission is to help our people to KNOW (encounter God), GROW (mature as disciples of Christ) and SHOW (be sent out by the Spirit to live and love and serve). Finally, we asked what we could do practically to better help our people to encounter God in worship, grow in maturity as disciples, and serve our wider community in mission. We came away with some ideas to implement for Sunday services, we will continue to encourage small groups as the key means of growing disciples (David J and Brenda S are both launching new groups soon), we will host a WMC curry evening in August, and have identified some new service projects. Look out for more details in the coming weeks.
Thank you so much to all who participated and made the evening possible! Let me know if you couldn’t be there but have feedback or ideas you’d like to pass on.
We collected adjectives to describe the kind of community we want to be – some of the key words to emerge were caring, welcoming, inclusive, vibrant, Spirit-filled and joyful [or fun :)]. We affirmed our mission is to help our people to KNOW (encounter God), GROW (mature as disciples of Christ) and SHOW (be sent out by the Spirit to live and love and serve). Finally, we asked what we could do practically to better help our people to encounter God in worship, grow in maturity as disciples, and serve our wider community in mission. We came away with some ideas to implement for Sunday services, we will continue to encourage small groups as the key means of growing disciples (David J and Brenda S are both launching new groups soon), we will host a WMC curry evening in August, and have identified some new service projects. Look out for more details in the coming weeks.
Thank you so much to all who participated and made the evening possible! Let me know if you couldn’t be there but have feedback or ideas you’d like to pass on.