Warmup #2-where did you think we’d be?

At the PMs this week, Joshua briefly mentioned that looking at the 5yr goals from 5yrs ago is very instructive.  A few people wanted to look at them but didn’t file the 2007 Map or weren’t here yet.  So here they are.

Our 5yr goals from 2007 were pretty interesting.  It can be a little confusing to look at future predictions from the past about your present.  (make sense?)

It’s a McFly-ian Dilemma.

Further dreams that we hope to realize by the end of 2011…

Dec. ‘06 we are one church with thirty-five cells with about 220 participants (Dec 11 we were 56 cells with 440 ), two public meeting sites with about 400 regular attenders (Dec 11 4 PM sites, 630 RAs), 244 members joined in covenant (Dec 11 360 CMs), about 170 givers of record in 2006 (in 2011 it was 284).

 After five years we hope…

We are articulating and demonstrating a vision for the next generation of God’s church. We have honed our practices and have unleashed our thinkers to listen and write and teach what God’s Spirit is revealing for our day.

We are nurturing our fourth meeting site. The growth of our cells has allowed us to multiply and form healthy congregations two further areas. We have exported our church planting methods to others cities.

We have welcomed an average growth of 30% in our number of Cell Leaders each year. We have 128 cells at the end of 2011 cells lead by 25 Coordinators and 4 Pastors..

We have continued to master new ways to communicate the good news. We are good at penetrating “hard core” unbelievers through our deliberate friendships, incarnational evangelism, compassionate service, revealing worship and creative, artistic events. Our cells engage pre-believers effectively. We have established a media vehicle for our use.

Circle Venture leads the network with vision. It is a respected generator of compassionate service, justice and reconciliation that gets our gifts and resources in touch with those in need. It oversees a vibrant collection of mission teams with a director paid by the Network.

Circle Thrift has shown how to mother an array of businesses. We have become adept, through Circle Venture, at helping those in need through further business start ups. Our businesses work as a mutual -aid network.

We are fomenting reconciliation. We are a consciously anti-racist, proactive-peacemaking people able to teach others.

We are conscious of our diversity and loving it. We are kingdom-like in our racial/ethnic/socioeconomic leadership, make-up, and practices. Our team of pastors is diverse in ethnicity, age and gender.

Our Music and Arts Cooperative leads us. It helps us to create, affirm, connect and communicate the gospel through the arts. Our buildings are creatively used as venues for the arts. We have paid staff that administers our events.

Children, teenagers and young adults find us attractive and meet Jesus through our ministry. We always want to focus on ministering to the next generation. We hope our parents invent ways to provide childcare communally. We want to engage with at-risk teens in our neighborhood. We want to maintain a presence on college campuses.

We have increased our national and worldwide connections through MCC, CCDA and BICWM and other partners . We send people out as members of our community to serve and share substantial percentages of our income with people outside our borders. We maintain links around the world when we send covenant members out to serve.

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What do you think is the biggest surprise?  Which one was the most encouraging to you?  Where do we still have the longest way to go?

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