E.H. Evangelism Mission Team

Meeting Reflection IV

This spot is open for any general reflections regarding The November 12th Meeting.

Our next meeting is scheduled for next Sunday, the 19th of November. We will gather to develop a strategy and implementation plan for building and equipping our Hospitality team. Thanks for your participation in todays lunch meeting....

Next Meeting

Greetings All!!!

Our next meeting will be on November 12th @ 12:00 noon in the Covenant Room (Room 120, next to Holy Ground Coffee Shop) Some of the Topics...

• Review of our Priorities - Dana
• Church Council Request - $
• Church visit - Dana
• Printed Material - Chris
• Website Update - Mark
• Evangelism Strategy for December
• January Sermon Series
• 2007 Budget
• Congregational Evangelism Study - Mark
• "New Mission and Ministry"

It seems as if we have quite a full plate for this Sunday...I would like to visit, for a bit, about some of the texts we have been reading. For those of you who have engaged one or more of the texts it might be helpful to all of us if you could post some thoughts here on the blog. For a full list of the textbooks select "Text Books" from the category section in the lefthand column. If there is something in a text that might be worthwhile for all of us to read please post a short comment and the page number. I will post the proposed budget for your review as well as a brief writeup on our status as a Healthy Congregation.

Budget Proposal...

Download evangelism_2007_pdf.pdf

East Heights Healthy Congregation Report. (Several of these categories are difficult to pinpoint, please offer your thoughts, comments, and reflection on the ?'s I have posed)

Download eight_characteristics___2006.pdf

Next Meeting

The Evangelism Mission Team will meet again on October 15th @ 12:00 noon...

Dana has challenged each of us to bring along three tangible ideas that we can begin to work on with respect to evangelism. As well we are charged to think through these ideas in light of Christmas...

Meeting Reflection - III

This spot is open for any general reflections regarding our third gathering on Oct. 1st....

Thanks go out today to Dion for providing sandwiches and chips...

Today was a great discussion with lots of input... If you have additional thoughts or would like to bring up something that we didn't get to, please post them here...

Some statistical data that we didn't get to today...

Download eh_40_year_attendance.xls

If you haven't noticed, context is sort of a big thing for me... Here is a short article, worth reading, that talks a bit about the way our brains function. This perspective  adds great value to conversations dealing with ways that we engage the gospel message as well as practical mission and ministry....  Revenge of the Right Brain (there are two pages, so be sure to click 'next' at the bottom of page 1)

Question # 5

What is the objective of evangelism?

Book Discussion - Biblical Perspectives on Evangelism

This space is provided for ongoing discussion on the Brueggemann Text.....

Book Discussion - The Faith Sharing Congregation

This space is provided for ongoing discussion on the Swanson/Clement Text.....

Book Discussion - Faith-Sharing

This space is provided for ongoing discussion on the Fox/Morris Text.....

Book Discussion - More Ready Than You Realize

This space is provided for ongoing discussion on the McLaren Text.....

Evangelism Texts

Greetings Friends....

All 4 Evangelism texts are in. I will put them on the counter in the program office with your names on them.

Please pick them up at your earliest convenience.

I would like us to be accountable to these texts for discussion.

First and foremost I would like us to be about the task of developing our biblical understanding and theology of Evangelism. The Brueggeman text is a good place to start with that and only has 4 chapters, so I would like us to read 1 chapter for each of our next 4 meetings. In light of that structure I would like to spend 15 minutes on Oct. 1st discussing the introduction and chapter 1.

The other two books contain more practical stuff...Here are the options for those books as I see them...

I would like to engage these two books "Seminar Style"...

1. We all read 1 chapter from each of these 2 books along with the Brueggeman text and discuss them all each time we meet.
2. We split the group in two, half read and share highlights from the Fox/Morris book and the other half reads and shares highlights from the Swanson/Clement book. Each group could have 15 minutes each week tocover as many chapters as they want.
3. Chris Eden and Dion Lefler read them in their entirety before October 1st and lecture for 2 hours on each text at our Oct 1st meeting....  :-)
4. I am open to other suggestions as to how to get through these texts.....

I will make a blog post for each text so that we can post thoughts and observations as we work through the texts....