STAFF MEETING FOLLOW UP
Great discussion last night. I so value your guys’ opinions, insights, and criticisms…and I especially value that we can openly and consistently question our habits and practices as a ministry. I firmly believe that the more defined and attainable our mission, the more we will collectively centralize ourselves allowing God to freely move through us. You guys rock…don’t forget it.
There will probably be a couple of bloggings birthed (that word was chosen for new grandpa Marty) out of last nights meeting, but I want to get our minds thinking about our mission and strategy. For understanding how mission and strategy works, and why this is important…check out the ‘Realizing Mission’ postings on my blog (shameless plug, but worthwhile reading). Ok, here we go!
Our mission: to lead students to become fully absorbed with the Jesus life. What does that ‘fully absorbed life’ look like? We determined that a fully absorbed life is one that is GROWING, LOVING, and LEADING. And with this understanding, we just discovered our strategy…to offer environments that lead students to grow in their relationship with God (raze gathering), belong in community with each other (fusion community groups), and equip them to lead in the areas that they are gifted (influence intiatives).
So the questions now are:
- Under this strategy, how can we most fully align our resources in order to give energy to our mission?
- How do we promote this effectively with our students and parents?
- Under this strategy, what are specific roles that will be needed to fill (such as curriculum writers for fusion groups, worship team for RAZE, etc.)
Ok…I think that’s broad enough for today. Have fun with the conversation! Remember, just throw your ideas out even if they aren’t fully formed…they will get us thinking together!
Wow. First let me say that I had some very good points and it did not get posted because I am not techno savvy. However here I go again….wish me luck.
1.What if we randomly texted people every couple days with things like Have a blessed day, or a scripture that was on our hearts.
2.I think we need to spend time with different teens and have them together for prayer time, or lunch, or just to visit and make sure that God makes it into the conversation during that visit.
3. Let the teens know that at times we need to lean on them also. It is not just a mentoring relationship, but they can help us with our struggles also.
I hope these are the kind of things you were looking for Jake. We need to become fully engulfed in the Jesus life as the leaders, just like we talked about in class the other night. By the way my first attempt at this post was much better worded, but I am not smart enough to remember what I said.
Marty