Ron’s Reflections

Faith had an incubator group in the church that spent a year in spiritual leadership developement, writing a new Mission Statement and developing an 8 page set of goals with specific strategies that supports the new Mission Statement.   

The new Mission Statement is  

Faith United Methodist Church is a community of faith celebrating God’s grace through worship, faith development, and ministry to the world.

Now the hard part!    The planning is done.   And while that process was long and difficult, now the hard part begins.   How do we implement this Mission Statement?    How to we live into our dreams and goals.     While 2009 was a year of planning, 2010 will be a year of doing.    Of taking specific action to live out the statement and to take concrete action on some of those goals.     

It will be exciting at times.   Frustrating at times.   Challenging at times.    Tiring at times.   It will ask us to do better what we already do well; and change some things that need improvement.    We have an ambitious set of goals for the next five years and they cannot all be done at the same time.  So we will have to discern God’s timing and priority and always be open to changing the five year plan.    For this is to be a dynamic living plan not a static document.

And we will be tempted to work on those goals based on our own skill and wisdom.    But if we want to succeed, we will need to constantly look to God for guidance and wisdom, power and strength, compassion and patience.     And we will need God to supply us with  people with a passion and any funds needed to minister in the ways we have dreamed.

Come join us on our journey to fulfill that mission statement.   We begin with a new sermon series in January and February that will challenge us to Practice our Faith.   Through prayer, faith sharing, rediscovery of our scripture and more.

 Ron