Evangelism Team Meeting
March 2, 2004

Attending the meeting were Dean Conklin, Jerry McLeland, Laura Kuhl, Jenita Rhodes, Jim Wolff, Lynda Fickling, and Carl Cleveland.

The attendees agreed on the following: Laura Kuhl will serve as Chair, Jim Wolff will be Co-chair, and Ken Fong will serve as interim Recorder.

Jim Wolff and Ken Fong shared information about the United Methodist Church’s “Igniting Ministry” program. This potential resource for us is intended to increase awareness of, positive feeling for, and renewed commitment to the United Methodist Church.

Laura Kuhl will be getting additional information from the conference office.

Ken handed out a proposal for target audiences, which the group discussed. He also handed out the results of a survey from the Central Christian Church, as input to the Identity discussion.

The majority of the meeting consisted of brainstorming on the St. Luke’s Identity; the results are included as Attachment I.

The next two meetings will be held on Tuesday, March 9, and Tuesday, March 23, from 7 to 8:30 PM.

The action items for the March 9 meeting are:

Look at the items in Attachment I and draft your own brief identity message for St. Luke’s, to be used for attracting outsiders to visit us.
Laura will gather additional evangelism information from the conference office.
Lynda will gather information from the congregation on “What aspects of our Invitational/Relational/Missional values are important to you?”

The objective of this meeting will be to close on the identity statement.

Attachment I

Identity Brainstorming

Invitational
1. Open to all backgrounds
2. Acceptance
3. No judgment
4. Warm, comfortable, family, welcoming – genuine interest / valuing of people
5. Inclusive
6. Safe
7. Respect
8. Regardless of background
9. Diversity of thought / spirituality / culture / age / tradition / race
10. Accept all people
11. Hope
12. Contemporary
13. Invitation to grow in the spirit of God
14. Comfortable
15. All a part of the family
16. At home here
17. Familial
18. A place here for you
Relational
1. Learn from each other
2. A small group for everyone
3. Supportive
4. A place for you
5. Opportunities to connect
6. Large church with small church feel
7. Easy to connect / “plug in” / get involved
8. Opportunities to create
9. Personal growth at own pace
10. Fun
11. Fellowship
12. Friendship
13. Community
14. All ages
15. Well fed, in many ways (big kitchen!)
16. There are people like you here
17. Relational with Christ – Goal
18. No “creed” to belong here
19. Meet you where you are, just like God
20. Lives are shared, not just lived
21. “Share your life with us”
22. Everyone has something to offer
23. Love
Missional
1. Faith through service
2. Congregational, community, metro, US, international
3. Stretch a little, out of comfort zone
4. Faith in action
5. See a need, fill a need
6. Experience the gift of giving
7. Do a little or do a lot
8. “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can”
Theology
1. Grace, not sin
2. Love, not fear
3. Not pre-determined, hope
4. Faith based on scripture, tradition, reason, experience
5. Learn at your pace
6. Sermons relate to real life
7. Sermons engage your mind as well as your heart
8. Sermons encourage, but don’t demand
9. Permission to question and disagree
10. Christ-based
11. Relationship with God, Christ, Holy Spirit, each other
12. Common ground in God
13. Take the Bible seriously, not literally
14. Methodist / Wesleyan
15. Thinking Christians
16. One God
17. No creed(s)
Other
1. Many kinds of programs & activities (music, nursery, children’s, youth)
2. Diverse congregation
3. Faith in action 7 days a week
4. Not just Sundays – all week long (inside and outside groups)
5. Open hearts, open minds, open doors
6. Outreach to community
7. Little School (pre-school)

Evangelism Team Meeting March 2, 2004

Evangelism Team Meeting
March 2, 2004