Prep for April Meeting

Since the last SGI meeting there's been a lot of progress on many fronts including the building of a welcome packet, real concrete plans for the church's participation in community pride day events, our teaching church applications are submitted and pending, and our team has written a couple of items for the Sunday church news insert. I think things are going very very well.

For the next meeting, it's my hope that the team can continue to work to find the best way to measure our progress and that we continue to stay motivated and energized about the work of each subcommittee over the next couple of months. These two goals will remain constant over the life of the SGI Team.

Spiritually, it's better to act, to do and go! where the energy of our ministry takes us than to get too too focused on management-like measurement tools that many folk find draining. That being said, we want to think of this like a 2 year marathon. I'm a swimmer (at least in my head) and I think in terms of the 500m event and I know that even that mid- to short-length event is about breathing, about flip turns, about the economy of each stroke. To shave off even 1 minute from your time is an amazing accomplishment and takes the ability of the swimmer and the coach to refine a bunch of little painful details. Each of us are swimmers and coaches all at the same time, and so we're learning to step by step how to be more and more "strategic" about our ministries.

OK. Point made. ROCK ON OPEN DOOR!