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It is time, if you haven't already, to begin praying about where to SERVE in 2012. Below is a Chart listing our teams - responsibilites - and current team leaders. They too are praying about where they will serve next year! Even if you are already on a team, we would like you to prayerfully consider your role for next year, and then once you know where, sign up at the welcome center for the team you want to serve with next year. We would love to have everyone on a team! Living Team Leader: Rick Beutel Focus: Worship & Atmosphere Goals: 1) Develop a sense of Ownership by each team member 2) Refresh and Reenergize our Atmosphere 3) Draw our Congregation into a more personal time of Worship 4) Become a Family within the Family Issues to resolve... 1) Yearly Schedule for Meetings 2) New Ministry - Meet & Greet Visitors and first time guests by making sure they are welcomed and that they receive a contact card every Sunday. 3) Showcase what is happening at de'View by having members share their testimonies either live or on video. 4) Continue improving ongoing Ministries: Specials, Dramas, and Testimonies, Drama Team, Children's Choir, Technology Team, Atmosphere/Stage/Presentation Minister's Note: This team has been doing a great job. You have been setting the standard. Please continue to strive for excellence and continue to push forward. Please do not settle for where we are. We must continue to move forward and upward. Learning Team Leader: Don Watts Focus: Education & Discipleship Goals: 1) Build Our Sunday School 2) Build Our Youth Program 3) Promote a church-wide desire to learn 4) Promote Spiritual Growth in each individual Believer Issues to resolve... 1) Youth Volunteers... especially Wednesdays... 2) We are at the point that we could very quickly become much wider than we are deep, if we do not continue to grow spiritually! Minister's Note: I am so excited about what God is doing here. However, with this growth will continue to come some growing pains, and nowhere is it more evident than here. We have more kiddos than we have trained help and adequate space at this point. We have a larger variety of ages for Sunday School than we offer programs due to the inconsistency of attendance and other factors. Not to mention the commotion and other issues that we could get into... so suffice to say... we have our work cut out for us. So where do we begin... 1) A full hour of Jr. Church 2) Breakfast for Sunday School 3) Recruit/Encourage/Empower 4) Re-energize Encounter A. Adults B. Teens C. Elementary Leaning Team Leader: Doug Stephens Focus: Building & Grounds Goals: 1) Revitalize Team 2) Clean & Refresh Building Each Week 3) Plan for Growth 4) Work to meet the needs of the other teams... (The building is a tool) Issues to resolve... 1) Leadership (Jack asked for a replacement due to health issues, therefore, Doug is taking over) 2) This team really needs to take ownership of the building and grounds and just go for it! Every Sunday - we want people to pull into a NEW CAMPUS with a NEW HOME SMELL, and LOOK, and YET FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE LIVED HERE THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! Minister's Note: "Ask every church growth expert, and they will tell you the same thing. People start making their mind up about a church the moment they first lay eyes on the property, before they ever pull into the parking lot or step foot outside of the car! It is imperative that we do everything with excellence, and it takes a lot of work and people with energy and pride to make this happen. We need you as a team to work together to make Fairview a place that people want to come. We need a plan for the present and the future on how to make church and the property a more pleasant experience. SO PLEASE LET'S MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER... THIS MINISTRY IS VITAL and WE NEED MORE INPUT AND INVOLVEMENT FROM THIS TEAM! We have been given a great buildig with lots of room for growth. Let's make plans for improvement while working with what we have! Laughing Team Leader: Marty Broady & Michael Wells Focus: Fellowship & Atmosphere Goals: 1) Rejuvenate the Excitement and the "WANT TO BE HERE" feeling 2) Monthly All - Church (family friendly) fellowships 3) Special Age Appropriate Fellowships that promote bonding among those of like ages and experiences. 4) One or Two BIG EXPERIENCE events for our kiddos to REMEMBER! Issues to resolve... 1) A decision needs to be made about either manning the welcome center each week or we need to get rid of it. 2) A plan needs to begin to be developed to begin using our grounds for fellowship. We have LOTS of space that we should start taking advantage of! (This will take some coordination with the Liquidate and Leaning Team) Minister's Note: "People need to spend time together to build relationships that move beyond the superficial. Trust provides the cornerstone for mutual accountability, transparent honesty and loving confrontation. This is not built by gathering for one hour on Sunday to sing hymns and hear the spoken message. It can only come through time as people learn to accept one another and value each other. To build this trust the church needs to provide opportunities for people to interact with one another informally and share with one another thier joy and sorrows, to help one another through assistance and care, to pray for another, through trials and difficulties. Potlucks, dinners, and fun activities are more than just social events; they are avenues for building trust as members learn to appreciate each other." From Shepherding the Small Church by Glenn Daman Loving Team Leader: Andy Watts Focus: Evangelism & Outreach Goals: 1) Recommit to connecting with visitors the same week they attend. 2) Track and follow-up "regular attendees" 3) Promote a church-wide attitude of evangelism 4) Meet the Needs of the Community LIKE NEVER BEFORE! Issues to resolve... 1) Man/Womanpower... people willing to help with this ministry. 2) The Spirit is willing, but the "flesh has been weak" literally with this team! Minister's Note: "Typically an unbeliever needs to have more than five meaningful contacts with a number of Christians before he or she will begin to trust the message of the Gospel. Consequently, the evangelism process involves the interplay between the individual Christian and the church community. Developing a witnessing community necessarily utilizes both of these arms for effective evangelism. To build a witnessing community, the church must become obsessed with evangelism; otherwise evangelism will remain a task rather than become a mission. Being a witnessing community is not another program - IT IS CENTRAL TO EVERY MINISTRY OF THE CHURHC. Without an evangelistic perspective, every ministry of the church will eventually collapse and become ineffective. The awareness of the mission field around the church remains vital to the overall health and vitality of the congregation. When the church no longer sees the lost, it stops functioning as a church." From Shepherding the Small Church by Glenn Daman I am convinced the easiest and most effective way to encourage and empower our people to evangelize is through their network of friends. WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF EXPLODING! DW Liquidate Team Leader: Kenny Brown Focus: Finance & Missions Goals: 1) Reorganize This Team 2) Develop Accountability and Security System 3) Plan for growth while working to meet the needs of the other teams 4) Become Mission Minded Issues to resolve... 1) The Finances need to become a Team Effort where the team is involved in the planning, the protecting, and preserving and all other purposes of our finances! 2) Missions - Taking the Gospel to those that do not know - and have not heard needs to become central to what we do, not an after-thought of what we do. We need to work to make our giving to our Missions more of a priority all while seeking to help the congregation understand that everything we do is about accomplishing our MISSION STATEMENT - which is to LIFT UP JESUS! 3) "Money should be locked up after collected and not left in the foyer." "Money should never be handled by one person." These are two comments that were shared with me by concerned members. Not because of anything that has gone wrong... but in an effort to protect those on this team and the church itself. Good thoughts, I thought :) Minister's Note: This team has the toughest job. The one that everyone criticizes, no one wants to do, and yet everybody thinks that should have a say in how it is handled. It takes a special person to be on this team... Thanks for being special! You are appreciated!
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