Parish Goals 2014-2015

Instead of a sermon we talked about parish goals that the vestry derived from our many conversations over the past year. They follow below - 

GOALS FOR ST. PAUL’S CHURCH – COMPILED FROM PARISH CONVERSATIONS

1.      Adult Formation/Bible Study.

Currently have 4 opportunities for this:

Weekly morning study at Louise Smith’s house                      

Saturday afternoon class for those interested in joining the Episcopal Church/renewing their vows.

Lenten season offerings

Advent season offerings

Goal:

§  Increase adult spiritual development and growth opportunities by 50% for a total of 6.

2.      Youth programs/Youth Formation.

Goals:            

§   Delay confirmation until 15/16.

§   Develop/Provide additional opportunities for adults/church family to   support youth ministries.

§   Identify people in the church who would want to be involved with youth.

§   Work with current parents to develop a program to get both parents and kids involved in the process of confirmation, and beyond.

3.      Social/Community Formation.

Currently have:

Men’s Wednesday lunch.

Two stewardship events

Lunch at the annual meeting

Progressive dinner

Annual Parish picnic

Informal dinners after 5:00 service

Coffee hours

Goal:

§   To promote bonding among parish members, initiate and improve relationships, and increase congregation’s (and their friends!) participation at social events. Need a metric to assess this; count participants at social/church and community service events.

4.      Outreach.

Goal:

§  Encourage more “hands on” connections with organizations that St. Paul’s already contributes to financially. Go out to organizations and ask what we can do for them (Outreach Committee is already beginning to do this). Assess success of goal by how many people show up, participate.

           

5.      Fundraising/Stewardship.

Goal:

§  Increase Stewardship. Specifically increase both pledge income and total number of families pledging by 5%. At end of year, assess how well these goals have been met.

 

 Then we talked about personal participation, and we are using a handout to think about how we might follow up on some of these goals.


Saint Paul’s Church Goals

Personal Action Plan

The goal that interests me is:

I will participate in achieving this goal though the following specific action(s):

I will act within this time period:

Resources – tools – assistance I need to accomplish these actions: