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Five Practices - Meeting 4
There was quite a bit of discussion concerning Risk Taking Mission, the fourth practice of the five practices. Here are some notes from the meeting.
- Different types of missions of our congregation is already doing:
- VBS offering
- Cleaning in Gary
- Mission of the month
- Mission of the Quarter
- MSB at Medaryville
- Youth making book bags
- Dance ministry to Winamac
- Choir to OurLady
- MSB to Ancilla
- Pre-school - risk taking…didn't know how it would go.
- Coffee Haven
- What else we could be doing?
- Skateboarding Kids
- Open Grill….
- Can't always expect people to come here…
- Short Term mission trips
- Work at the Distribution Center
- Community Food Drive
- Prison Ministry (Kiros)
- Dance Ministry (Outreach)
- Give Free water to people… (Mint Festival Cooling Area)
- Guitar Ministry
- Skateboarding Kids
- We discussed being pushed outside of our comfort zones
- There's plenty of opportunity, you just have to seize it.
- We talked about how for new ministries the church could be about giving permission rather than authority. We don't want the issue to be that we would start a ministry if only we had the authority. Instead we want people to be able to sense what God is calling them two and move in that direction. The church would serve to help people network with each other and resource.
- If we can getting four people interested in a ministry/mission, then there is a good chance it can be viable.
- We discussed if it would be possible for our church to work as hard for missions giving….as we do for new buildings.
