Your Discernment Team consists of Ellen Donker, Mark Hatten, Kem Mackey, Liz Moulthrop, and Allyson Roe.
What We’ve Accomplished So Far
- Congregational Timeline/Storytelling Event
- Demographic Study of the Area (using a 10-minute driving radius around the church’s building)
- Community Interviews and Summary of the Demographic Study
What’s on Tap for October
- Listening Groups
- Thursday, October 20, 9 a.m. with morning devotional group on-line
- Sunday, October 23 after worship in-person
- Thursday, October 27, 7:30 p.m. on Zoom
Please participate in a Listening Group! This is your opportunity to share your dreams and visions for the future for Grace Presbyterian Church. These are the questions:
- What Biblical stories relate to our life together as a faith community right now?
and/or, What hymn could be our theme song?
- Having read the summary of the Timeline Event, is there anything you would add or amend?
- What did you learn from the demographic report and the community interviews?
- What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you?
- How well does GPC reflect the community around the church?
- What needs did you hear that you thought the church might address?
- Where do you perceive God at work in the community?
- Where do you perceive God at work in the congregation?
- What gifts/talents do you bring to the ministry of GPC?
- Or what gifts/talents could you imagine bringing to the ministry of GPC?
- What or who do you have a heart for in the larger community that would make sacrificing time/energy/resources an easy choice?
- How are you currently using your gifts/talents in ministry albeit not under the umbrella of GPC?
- What do you think needs to be part of our Mission Statement?
- What do you think the Pastor Nominating Committee needs to know?
What’s Next
In November, we will gather the Discernment Team and the Session to develop a Mission Statement for the church that will help the Pastoral Nominating Committee find a pastor to help you live it out.
What You Can Do Now
Pray. Thank you for your faithfulness to God and this community of faith!
Pastor Robin Miller Currás