We have had a busy month of October and look
forward to a spirit filled Thanksgiving season as we
move into November.
One of the ideas we are working on in our planning sessions is to develop activities in four areas for each quarter. They include worship, service, outreach and fellowship. All of these are important to our life together as a congregation.
I am always amazed how joining together to plan helps bring out ideas that help us see new ways we can do things and new talents we can use. I'm thinking about the idea of developing a service group that would help people with projects around their homes. We have Sue Beck in the congregation who can find us as much work as we would like to do with people she works with everyday.
I believe that if we can share in activities in each of these four areas that our life as a branch will be enriched.
We have organized the pastorate so that we have counselors helping oversee the programming of different months, which I think will be a very helpful. We are also dividing up the congregation so that we can keep a closer eye on the needs of families in our group.
Another area that we will be working on is trying to communicate better what is going on in the branch to those who cannot attend ever week.
It has been brought to our attention that sometimes we think things have been communicated, but really only those who are at church that day get the announcements. Be sure to let us know if you have any suggestions on how we can function better as the Body of Christ.