Mission Plans for the Summer
Important Prayer Needs for this week here: www.concordiatogether.com (see a new photo there too!)
Mission Launch/Family Meeting Today:
We have 50 days to the launch of the new preschool! We have 98 days to the launch of monthly services at the site. These need to look like the weekly worship services that will begin February 21, 2010.
We need the mission team to commit to 2 – 3 months of service in one of 6 mission teams:
1. Guest Services (how guests are greeted, treated, seated and degreeted)
2. Preschool Launch Team (marketing, facilities, site readiness)
3. Community Events. Events scheduled to December (July-Family Fun Day, August-SportsDay, September-Music Festival, October-Harvest Fair, December-Living Nativity)
4. Prayer (Prayer Vigils, Prayer Walks at the Site, fasting/prayer)
5. Organizational Site. (Getting the Oxford site ready for the move, pack up teams, preschool setup, history of this site — picture and story of EACH person here, YOU ARE the pioneers)
6. The Sunday Experience (worship/SS/Bible Class)
Email Melissa Salomon at mgsalomon@gmail.com to sign up for team according to your SHAPE. If you haven’t taken your SHAPE profile, she will give you one to complete.
We need FOCUS and TOGETHERNESS as we accomplish the MISSION TASKS over the summer:
This will take:
1. Going to one service beginning June 28. This service will be at 9:30am. It is a time of CELEBRATION (worship together), PRAYER, and working as MISSION TEAMS.
2. With space restrictions in the new site and alignment with our DNA as being a place where people feel at HOME, we will discover how to bring Sunday School into church and grow in our faith in an environment where families worship together. There will be no separate Sunday School per se. We will have an opportunity in this way to worship, pray, fellowship and work in mission/task teams each Sunday.
A. In the Heritage Service this will mean gaining Bible skills in church and a teaching sermon.
B. In the Praise Service this will look more like our Family Church experiment of two summers ago.
3. For children under 5 there will be no Nursery (babysitting) but an experiential curriculum where young children are taught the foundation of the faith. They will begin with these three concepts: God made me, God loves me, Jesus is my forever friend.
THANK YOU to Concordia volunteers for serving at the Windingwalk Art Festival on Saturday. Thank you to Jessica Robinson, the community event organizer for organizing this event. Thirty people made this event a success! Thank you for your service.
