Congregational Celebration on May 18

Meeting held on May 18 from 4:30 - 9:00 for a total of 4.5 hours
Mentor = Dr. / Pastor Randy Wieland

Notes and Agenda:

CELEBRATE!

Congregational Meeting and Servant appreciation

May 18, 2008

4:30-5:30 Eat, Mingle, Game, Redeem – Potato dinner was served by the youth of the church. Games were played and a Jumpie was set up for others to explore. Most people sat, ate, and caught up with small talk.

5:45-8:00 Meeting

A. Praise – Carolyn and praise band led the group in an assortment (Mix) of praise songs.

B. Celebrate the past year (in small groups first then present) – A game was played with groups seeing who could list the most accomplishments. The group made up of Connections folks was the winner.

C. Prayer as led by Pastor Randy

D. Celebrate the year to come

1. New Beginnings from program staff

Admin-Cindy – Provided a mini in-service on the use of the web-based program for partner information.

Children-Kelly – Highlighted many of the programs and focused on the partnership with Sunburst school and upcoming VBS

Youth-Jay – Highlighted many of the programs being offered to youth, as well as growing partnership with ASU West and Young Life.

Adult-Fred – Highlighted small groups, Conversation Café, and plans for summer.

Celebration Arts-Carolyn – Shared what is happening with praise team and within different services.

2. The dollars to make it happen: MFP

Lead pastor- PR

a. 501 (3)(c) Barry – Also tied into having companies match donations through the 501 C-3.

b. Alternative income streams-PR – Home buying project at Auction. New one coming June 6^th.

c. New discipleship program

d. Remodel –PR – Discussed the adaptions to the Choir Loft as well as the addition of a baptismal.

e. Parking lot –PR – Rob gathering bids and working toward throwing some rock into the north part of our parking lot.

3. The structure to make it work: bylaws – Pastor Randy provided diagrams and much conversation to the partners on the proposed bylaws. Discussion took place on Admin team, Deacons, and Elders. A Question and Answer session followed where all had a chance to ask questions.

4. Q & A

E. Pray some more!

8:00 – 9:00 More Play, Redeem, Renew

Reflections: As mentioned in other posts, Dr. Wieland has a variety of leadership skills. Two that seemed to stand out during this celebration were his Moral Purpose (Michael Fullan) and his ability to get all of his staff involved in furthering the vision the has been built. As you can see from the notes, many of the church leaders had an opportunity to present what was happening in their area and illicit feedback from church goers. Dr. Wieland, has a Moral Purpose that is different from some other leaders as he does all things with a GOD perspective. Well, knowing him, he would probably be humble and honest and say that he hopes to. :-). I feel as a leader, that I should do the same, but also realize that I am not perfect and sometimes have to be placed in a tough situation to eventually make it a better one.