What Would Make Your Heart Sing? a vision process for Calvin Presbyterian Church: My Great Idea

We're collecting! Our vision process is about determining priorities in a broad, general sense, but along the way we're bound to have some great ideas about specific programs or directions at Calvin, so share them here! You can also record them on paper and submit them at church as well....Just reply with a comment....

MY GREAT IDEA IS.....

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You are invited to join this conversation and add your voice to the vision process. Find opportunities to comment on our ongoing book discussion, find weekly reflections and scripture, or submit your great idea for Calvin. Calvin's vision process is an exercise in hearing as many voices as possible and praying that the Spirit will organize them into a vision. So we will keep talking, and listening, and looking, and waiting....

To add your input to this blog, you don't need to sign in or join, you can simply reply to a comment in the space below the text. If you are comfortable, please use your name so that we can follow up with you if necessary.

HERE'S WHERE WE'RE STARTING....

We believe that the Spirit speaks to us more clearly as groups than as individuals. Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am there also. Matthew 18.20

This process will be inclusive, inviting the input and participation of anyone who has a story to tell, a passion to share, or a yearning to be God's hands in the world. We seek to include children, youth, active and inactive members, friends of Calvin and community members, businesses, and organizations. We understand that God's vision for the world is radically inclusive, so we want to discover the passions not only of those within our walls, but those outside them whom we are called to engage in Christ's name as well.

During the six week period of the process, we will focus on hearing and telling our stories and discovering God's presence and passion in our lives. We will not initiate new programs. We will not worry ourselves about how many people are in worship or focus discussion on the need for growth to avoid decline in attendance at Calvin. We understand that God's intention and grace is to save the world through Jesus Christ and God can certainly accomplish that end (God already has!) with or without Calvin Church. However, as children of God who are desperately seeking a path to live out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phillipians 2.12) AND JOY!, we are engaging this process to identify where our common passions lie and look toward using them in our calling to be God's hands in the world.

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