Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Town Hall - June 24, 2012

Today we had approximately 140 attend our first Town Hall Meeting regarding the possibility of a new MPR (multi-purpose room). Pastor Brian gave a 25 minute presentation and then there was about 25 minutes of questions and comments. After the meeting we had 41 people leave their completed surveys, 78 green dots and 4 red dots showed up on the floor plan poster and a great BBQ lunch outside with only a few drops of rain. Thanks to all for the comments and questions and for your willingness to express yourselves in a genuinely sincere manner. As mentioned at the meeting we are at the preliminary stages of this discussion in many ways. It might be good to mention that lots of work by the Board and in particular two men on behalf of the Board, Dennis Gunter and Jim Best, has been done so far in making contact with a variety of businesses and sources so that we could even get to today and be able to present something with a level of awareness of basic issues. We will attempt to fill you in along the way with more detail and try to offer some kind of Question and Answer format here with the blog at times. We realize that some are processors and others are more willing to offer an early response. Please know that we are wanting to take time to hear from you all - the response today is only meant to give the Church Board some kind of indication as to the benefit of doing more research and study. A very strong "Red Dot No" this-not-a-good-idea would have told us to be careful about how much time we set aside in our upcoming effort. The Church Board meets June 25 so we will be in touch again after that with our sense of direction regarding next steps. Til later, have a great evening. We must say how many comments there were at lunch too about the wonderful service today with the baptisms... looking forward to many more of those times in the life of our church. Thanks to John and Jim for setting up the baptismal this week. Pastor Brian

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

June 24, 2012 Town Hall Meeting

Three purposes for this Sunday: Information: We want to keep people informed. Engagement: By introducing some general concepts, to welcome input and feedback. Idea Generation: Who knows where the next great idea will come from? Simple yet helpful in order to include as many ideas and considerations as possible. This meeting will be the beginning of our feedback loop as a congregation. Hope you can make it - the meeting will start shortly after the morning service. There will be some materials for you to take home to ponder beyond the meeting time itself. We will also be giving you a way to give us a "first impression" kind of response to the concepts put forward on Sunday. See you then!

The Journey and the Process

Thanks for signing on to our blog at Trulls Road Free Methodist Church. We are in the early stages of working towards a potential building addition at Trulls and wanted to keep you posted along this journey. It is important, of course, to consider many aspects along the way in any building program, so we want to invite you to be a part of the process. Over the course of the next few weeks and months there should be lots to talk about and consider. Your thoughts and feedback are most welcome. On June 9 the Church Board met for an extended Saturday morning meeting to prepare for the upcoming Town Hall meeting. We are excited about the possibilities and the potential to add to our facility so we can serve our community more effectively. One of our board members suggested our church ministry and it's building is for "every age at every stage." We liked that kind of vision of what this is all about. We'd appreciate your prayers as we look to set the agenda for the June 24 meeting. A special thanks to Dennis Gunter who has been very helpful to date in doing some leg work on the expansion ideas so far. Many more will be added to the list of appreciations to be sure. So thanks for checking this blog out and here's wishing for a great ride until the day in which we can dedicate the new addition, whatever it will look like, to the Glory of God. Many blessings, Pastor Brian