Aldersgate United Methodist Church
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Vision TeamAldersgate Goals
2008
Overall: (General Administrative Goal)
* Implement Every Aldersgate Member in Ministry (Ankeny) structure in 2009
Worship: (Worship God)
* Increase worship attendance by 15%
* Increase diversity of congregation attending worship
* Establish a weekly contemporary worship service; continue traditional
* Install/utilize projection capability in sanctuary for contemporary worship
Spiritual growth: (Grow In Christ)
* Establish college and/or 20 something class(es)
* Provide Advent and Lenten spiritual growth opportunities for adults
* Identify/implement 2 new spiritual growth opportunities for children and youth
* Increase Sunday school attendance by 15 %
Serve in the power of the Holy Spirit:
* Add 2 local mission/service activities for youth and congregation
* Meet with local community (e.g. neighbors, Bosnians and Hispanics) to identify and create opportunities to serve them at/through Aldersgate
* Support ongoing service, mission projects and missionaries
* Identify and implement 2 new ministries to better support our senior adults
Vision Team Report to Aldersgate Administrative Council Meeting, March, 2007:
The following are the key points of the Vision Team.
Aldersgate Vision Team Minutes
Mon 3-03-08
7:00-8:30 p.m. Fellowship Hall
Aldersgate’s Vision:
Creating an Audacious Christian Community
Aldersgate’s Mission:
Worship God, Grow in Christ, Serve in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Meeting Purpose: Welcome new members; follow-up on pamphlets and changes to be made for 2008; Review Vision Team and Aldersgate goals: who/what group is responsible and status/follow-up needed; brain storm and identify follow-up on how we could better meet Aldersgate goals
Treats: Mary Burkett—thanks Mary!
Attendees: Jeremy Poland, Jennifer Shide, Vicky Rossander, Mary Burkett, Ken Roth, Dave Shogren, Kaj Sinclair, and Bill Kuhn
Agenda
Bill shared a reading from the March-April 2008 Upper room titled “Prayer is a Hunger, see Matthew 5:6 and page 6 of the Upper Room
Minutes were approved as E-mailed
Ken Roth and Jennifer Shide attended. Bruce Bernard will be joining the Team. Still waiting to see if Ariel Ebbers or someone from the Sojourner class will be joining. Bill will follow-up
* Some contacts still need to be made and Bill will follow-up with Theresa before next meeting to determine how much feedback was received and have for next meeting
* Need to be sure all new members have received pamphlets—Bill will follow-up with Theresa to determine if new members have received and be sure they are contacted and given a pamphlet. Also Pastor Dave will be sure pamphlets covered in New Member class—was suggested that a Vision Team member discuss and several indicated they were willing to meet with new Member Class to share
* Jennifer indicated that the information has been very helpful to her to get help for worship service, e.g. liturgist, children’s sermon—others are also using, e.g. Mission Committee
* Confirm /modify goals, identify Vision Team leader for each and finalize
meeting plans for rest of year This was done---see below:
# Suggest that these be goals for the Vision Team for 2008 and identify a leader for each goal:
^ Follow-up on the pamphlets and ensure data and information is available for those who need it. Jason & Vicky
Suggestion was made to post results and share broadly so members can see where there are needs and members interested in different areas
^ Ensure implementation of Every Aldersgate Member in Ministry for 2009 administrative structure Bill, Pastor Dave and Mary
Some discussion concerning if we should develop pamphlet to cover current committee structure and stay with current committees. This will need to be determined at next Vision Team Meeting and would need to go to Ad. Board for approval by June. Bill, Pastor Dave and Mary will discuss and have recommendation to Vision Team by next meeting.
^ Brainstorming and identifying ways to meet our vision, mission and goals and supporting staff Kaj, Jeremy, Ken & Jennifer
^ Support committees and ensure they utilize Aldersgate goals in developing some of their goals Pastor Dave, Vicky and Mary
^ Develop metrics & measure progress in meeting Aldersgate goals and communicate to congregation Dana and Bill
# Meetings going forward
^ Will meet about quarterly instead of monthly or as needed. Meetings will start at 6:30 P.M. and will plan to have some meetings that will be brainstorming (potentially off site) to generate ideas and will have treats going forward
^ Proposed list of meeting dates for consideration: April 29th, August 25th, & Nov. 10th
We will meet at the dates above and meeting times will be 6:30-8:00 p.m. opposed to 7-8:30 p.m. We will have 45 minutes devoted to brainstorming on the Aldersgate goals at each meeting. Treats and devotional will be covered as follows:
Date Treats Devotional
April 29 Vicky Rossander Vicky Rossander
Aug. 25 Dave Shogren Jeremy Poland
Nov. 10 Kaj Sinclair Ken Roth
# Review Aldersgate goals and brainstorm on how we might better meet goals
Kaj and Jeremy led brainstorming session concerning how Aldersgate could better meet our goals for 2008 covering Worshipping God, Spiritual Growth and Serving in the Power of the Holy Spirit. Had a lot of discussion on how we can enhance our outreach and growth, bring more people to Christ and enhance our congregation’s Christian walk
Specific Recommendations needing action:
* Worship & Spiritual Growth are top priority without slipping in Service
* Leverage the power of prayer: Have a Prayer Vigil from end of Good Friday Service till Easter morning (7:30 am)—36 hour or through Saturday Service (22 hours). Vision Team recommends moving ahead this year and will support making it happen to enhance Worship and Spiritual Growth for congregation—will need help from Admin Board and committees to make it happen
+Will discuss at Staff meeting
+Will leverage off of past experience
- Will have 1 hour shifts
- Can have more than one person but at least one
- Suggest having at least one and preferably 2 people there
for security serving 2-3 hour shifts
+ Will need to push at worship in bulletin/newsletters and in Sunday school classes—Vision Team will help a lot here
* Celebrate key events that occur right after the event (e.g. Youth strike for Christ, ASP) and provide testimony opportunities
* Participate in Urbandale July 4th parade and have youth and members with Aldersgate T-shirts as well as drive the UMM P.E.T. vehicle
* Focus on spiritual basics in worships and small groups
* Provide more altar opportunities before or at close of service as well as during communion
* Additional spiritual growth opportunities, e.g. Disciple, study of Spiritual gifts, Walk to Emmaus (adult and youth version), Bible study
* Look for ways to enhance worship service---lot of discussions and various ideas. Important to identify ways to get people to come back more often. This would be through the type of message, methods of worship, etc.
+ Suggest that we invite those that attend Sunday school and not worship to attend worship service in a positive way, reverse would also be true—one/one contact
+Share why worship is a critical part of one’s spiritual life—personal testimony and why it is a priority
+ Suggest having an outside worship on some Saturday nights in the summer
+ Identify ways to bring those members back more often that attend only at Easter and Christmas
* How do we reach out to the community better and bring more diversity
into our congregation from people in the Aldersgate neighborhood that also includes Hispanic, Bosnian, etc.
+ Canvassing community with adult/youth and inviting people to
come to Aldersgate
+ Identify something to do at Aldersgate specifically for
Neighborhood that would bring people to Aldersgate
+ Share what we are doing and make people aware of
opportunities for spiritual growth, worship and service
# T-shirt sales Jeremy
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