Strategic Planning Presentation

At the Session meeting last night, the Strategic Planning Committee presented its initial report to the elders. We were given a summary report of 44 pages, plus the "Black Book," a 249 page report containing all the information collected over the last couple of months from research and surveys. A briefer presentation will be given at the congregational meeting December 2. But you will also be given access to all the materials given to the elders. Plans are to make the materials available online through the church website. I think Tobias Klauder and Dot Boersma will be posting the materials, probably within a week. I'll alert you to when they are posted.

You will also be surveyed for your response and insights during December. The results of this report and the upcoming surveys will inform a Session workshop to be held January 13-14. That workship will initiate several months of session dialogue with the goal to "achieve consensus on Tenth's future direction."

Along with your participation in the surveys, the Session exhorts the congregation to keep this process bathed in prayer, for we recognize that it is by the leading of the Holy Spirit alone that this process will be fruitful, and that it is merely a tool to help us in discerning God's will for the church.