Visioning
Welcome to a Web page you can use to help First United Methodist Church create a vision that fulfills God's will.
We feel called as a church to discern what God wants. So we are in a special visioning process. This is not a traditional organizational study of audience needs, appropriate responses and available programs and or resources. Much more exciting, this is an effort to create a vision that centers on what God calls us to be about, and to do, in our community.
Since early 2008 a Visioning Task Force has been laying groundwork for the creation of a church vision based in God's will. A Visioning Panel has been working since mid-2009 on how that vision can be worded. Meantime, members of our church have engaged in Bible study groups, community interviews and two special conferences - a Heritage Sunday that examined our past and a Conference on the Present - to examine what it means to do God's will in our community.
We have formed a Vision Panel. This group has met together in bible study and has worked with the vision task force in preparing for the Conference on the Present and Vision Retreat. They have reviewed the results of the Conference on the Present. The Vision Panel will take the output of the Vision Retreat and work together to craft a Guiding Vision statement for the church. Members of the Vision Panel are Andrew Walker, Arlene Kaczinski, Chris Hoffman, Dave Jansen, Ellen Colony, Judy McRoberts, Paul Meade and Ryan Bevins.
More work needs to be done and we urge you to be a part of it. Items you can access on this page will help you do that.
Your Visioning Task Force,
Terri Davis, Jim Kiersey, Lyle Muller, Paul McRoberts, Renee Pierson, Alecia Williams and Charlotte Young