It’s been another busy week in Mark-land.<\/p>\n
Sunday we had the real Sr. High youth group kickoff session.\u00a0 We had fun, got introduced to each other, played around, and ate ice cream.\u00a0 It’s a good group of youth including not one but TWO exchange students.<\/p>\n
Monday evening we had the first meeting of the Welcome and Outreach Task Force that I am co-chairing.\u00a0 As I’ve said before our charter is to study visitors, inactive members and the local community and then to make recommendations on what the church could do to create an atmosphere of hospitality and invitation.\u00a0 It was a good meeting – mainly kept to start up tasks and ideas.\u00a0 We have two challenges.\u00a0 First is scheduling meetings – the folks on the team are really busy and it’s hard to find a 1.5 hour time slot that works for everybody.\u00a0 Fortunately I discovered (after some hints from the pastor and another team member) Meet-O-Matic<\/a>.\u00a0 That should help.\u00a0 The second challenge is that we have one team member who has no Internet access (or inclination to get access).\u00a0 We’ve appointed a team member to be that member’s “Internet buddy”, and we’ve covenanted not to make any decisions via e-mail without getting her input.<\/p>\n The team is very diverse (as diverse as we could get given the congregation’s demographics).\u00a0 We have people who have only been attending our church since last spring and people who have been members for over 25 years.\u00a0 We have a pretty good age spread, and the gender balance is good.\u00a0 The skills and interests of the group members are fairly well balanced, too.<\/p>\n One interesting concept that came from this meeting is the definition of our “mission field” – the land area that we are targeting.\u00a0 The traditional idea was that we serve a 3 mile radius from the church building.\u00a0 However, over 1\/2 of the team lives outside of that radius.\u00a0 This means (by extrapolation – and it does work out that way) that a significant percentage of the church membership drives past another Presbyterian church or three (not to mention other denominations) to get to our church.\u00a0 We are thinking that we might have two tiers – the 3-mile “local” tier and a larger area.\u00a0 We decided to add “active members outside the 3-mile radius” to the list of groups studied to see what draws them to drive a distance to be part of our community.\u00a0 We’re also going to be mapping the households using software yet to be determined (Google Maps?). Tonight is laundry, and then Friday evening I’m going with the Sr. Highs up to Camp Johnsonburg for a quick overnight retreat.\u00a0 We’ll be home about 3pm on Saturday – just in time to see Rutgers play Maryland (my brother’s alma mater) in football.<\/p>\n Sunday I’ll have church in the morning.\u00a0 I’m attending an adult forum on what makes Presbyterians different from other denominations.\u00a0 I have homework to do – matching the names, dates, and a short summary of the Confessions.\u00a0 Sunday evening the church is doing the first ever Jazz Vespers<\/a>.\u00a0 The youth are attending together, and I’m probably going to bring Carolyn along too.<\/p>\n Who was it that said “You can sleep when you’re dead.”?
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\nSo that was Monday evening.\u00a0 Did I get a break Tuesday evening?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Carolyn decided that this was the week to re-seal the driveway while it is still warm enough.\u00a0 (It did need it)\u00a0 So I got home Tuesday evening and it took the two of us just about 1 hour to put a coat on the driveway.\u00a0 She was nice to me Wednesday evening and put the 2nd coat on herself (a thinner coat).\u00a0 I just had to cook dinner.<\/p>\n