What
is Ahead in 2017?
East Taieri Church
Each year I find it helpful to list some prayerfully planned highlights that connect with our strategic plan and operational goals. These things will help us move toward our Church vision:
We will be a thriving church, responding to God's grace and passionately living out our faith, wherever we live, work and play.
Together we will work alongside others to develop thriving communities
where people feel connected, known, loved and valued.
Our theme for the year is “Inspire – Lift Up Your Eyes”. We believe God is calling us to trust that He
is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his
power that is at work within us…
Evangelism:
·
Ravi
Zacharias visit to Dunedin. Stadium
Event! One of the team – Jade Te Uri
Karaka will speak at our March Business breakfast at Aurora Café.
·
Journey
to Easter - Stations of the Cross display in the Hub leading up to Easter. Invite
the community to experience it.
·
Alpha in 2017 is “Invite the Nation” – Globally the biggest
invitation of this Generation. Aiming to
have 500 invitations go out and praying for 75 guests at the Alpha dinner.
·
Develop
the 1x1=1000 vision through prayer and encouraging faith sharing.
Worship:
·
Work
on the results of our 10am service survey and see growth and health in this
congregation. Train up new service
leaders for 10am
·
Develop
the 9am gathering before worship.
·
Continue
to explore fresh expressions of church.
Discipleship and Spiritual Growth:
·
We
will start 3 new life groups and have 2 small group networking nights
·
Continue
with the Hard Questions Café discussion setting for Christians who aren’t
engaging with church and people wanting to explore deeper issues of faith.
·
See
greater resourcing for God’s mission in people giving time, money, and using
their spiritual gifts. The Abundant
Generosity series.
·
Appoint
a new youth director.
·
Settle
Caleb Griffith – our new youth worker into his role and help him create
opportunities to connect with our community and disciple our youth.
·
Address
internet safety and issues of sexting and pornography in our “Life to the Full”
series including a visit from James Beck.
Community Ministries:
·
Feasibility
study for a community hub.
·
Funding
sourcing and reporting framework established.
·
Grow
our connections with community groups, such as
TCC Food Bank, Emergency Response, Mosgiel Business Assn, Neighbourhood
Support.
·
We
will enhance well-being and connectedness of seniors through a mid-winter
lunch.
·
Run
three toolbox parenting courses.
·
Run
Children's holiday programmes
·
Continue
with Business breakfasts ( 3 per year). Explore the possibility of a special
invitation only Dinner with a guest
speaker
Communications:
·
Explore
the use of mailchimp for email updates, including updating supporters of
community ministry.
·
Explore
possibilities for a new phone system to replace our old failing PABX system and
obtain funding to resource this.
Mission Facilities:
·
Obtain
an initial design concept for our future mission facilities on the East Taieri
Site.
Wider Ministry:
·
Three
short term mission trips will be planned. Thailand Jan 2018, Malawi June 2018,
Vanuatu youth team July 2018
·
South
Island Ministry Conference in May
