thoughts prior to meeting one
COMMUNITY ACTIONMTG one - 26TH September 2006
Intro thoughts from mat:
. why?
- what is our motivation?
o Serving
o getting out in community, interacting
o being light/ blessing
o not about converting
o not works based
o about being real/ honest
o what is God saying?
o about listening to God, listening to our community &
acting/responding
o key is building relationships
o not a project where turn up and then go home done work
o its about ongoing relationship
. when?
o wait / action
o balance
o hearing, listening, acting
o being well prepared
o not taking on too much too soon
o commitment
o leadership
o hard-work, grafting
o it looks nice on paper, but will be messy, conflict with work, our
other life commitments
. how frequent?
o one off
o weekly
o monthly
o sporadic
. what?
o opportunities are endless
. what scale?
o individual volunteering
o small groups
o entire congregation
o multiple churches & non church participation
. something new, our heart & vision, or supporting existing work
- EXISTING PROJECTS
o kelvin – busses
o bob light - flowers estate
o graham - james st
etc
- VOLUNTEERING
o Soup run
o Theo's lists
- NEW ideas
o golden grove football tournaments/ coaching
o christmas cafe . Debs
o Cook House cafe opposite church
o schools work .
o painting, gardening general clean-up, providing a helping hand
o Laura's connection with council – opportunity to support them in the community
o student movie night . Theo
o working with Polish . Dave Adcock
o working elderly
o painting houses
o plus there will be plenty of others
. Vision / direction/ where do we go
o saturated in prayer
o prayer to be initial focus
o Ed prepared to setup & initiate monthly prayer meeting
o would like us to take a day to fast about this, want us to be serious about this, not to move God, but to change our hearts, to refine our motivation, to sort our priorities
o want to create forum for us to post ideas, place also for people to further flesh out ideas for people to comment with aim being people can then pray into ideas - and see what takes shape
. what is purpose of this meeting?
o want to support people/ empower people to step out in this
o where do we go from here?
o how often do we want to meet as collective group?
o this stage I don't know
o just testing water putting it out there
o don't see that just these people are it - when things start shaping together, I do hope and expect there will be a wider pool of people to help out
. final thought
o I believe we are in preparation stage at moment, laying foundation. Fresh buzz about community things which don't want to lose, but equally don't want to be too hasty
o one thing I want from this is to ask you all be proactive in asking yourself questions/ pondering on this
. for example with Football example
o what does it look like?
o how will it work?
o where/when?
o what is the aim of it?
o how might it look if it is successful/ well received?
o i.e. hopefully part of it is building relationships
o how will we maintain & develop those relationships
o this means time commitments
o how many people do you need?
o where can you get support?
o what resources does it need to run?
o what are the risks?
o what are the potential issues that you may have to combat?
o what permission do you need?
o how do you plan to get people on board? (people you are targeting in community)
Ongoing communication/ BLOG/ Forum?
posted by mat comer @ 7:26 pm
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